Utilised Agricultural Area 2022 (provisional)

In 2022, a total of 2 268 000 hectares of agricultural land will be in use. Of this, 2 035 000 hectares were arable and 208 000 hectares were set aside. Other agricultural land in use amounted to just under 25 000 ha.

Area sown (ha) and Change - % compared to previous year

• Winter wheat  36 000 ha (-34%)
• Spring wheat  195 000 ha (+20%)
• Autumn rye  20 000 ha (+10%)
• Feed barley  363 000 ha (-4%)
• Malt barley  66 500 ha (-5%)
• Oats  336 500 ha (+1%)
• Mixed cereals  43 000 ha (+5%)
• Peas  34 500 ha (+51%)
• Broad bean 11 500 ha (-7%)
• Rapeseed  33 500 ha (+13%)
• Rape  9 500 ha (+14%)
• Caraway 16 500 ha (-9%)
• Reed canary grass  3 000 ha (0%)
• Grassland less than 5 years old  794 000 ha (-1%)

More crop areas by crop and crop group are available in the statistical database at national level and by ELY centres. For 2022, the European Union has granted a derogation to set aside land for cereal production. The preliminary data do not take into account the actual crops grown on set-aside under the derogation. These areas will be included in the final statistics.