Arable crops; production, to region

This table provision of information per crop about the cultivated and harvested area, yield per hectare and the total yield in a crop year. The data are available for the Netherlands as a whole and by commission. Applying crop rotation helps a farmer to avoid deterioration in soil fertility. A cultivation plan is prepared annually, to make sure that the same crop is not cultivated in the same place year after year. Typically, one third of the accessible land is covered with cereals (mainly winter wheat and spring barley), a quarter is covered with potatoes, one Eighth is covered with sugar beet, and one tenth is used for vegetables (mainly onions) as well as as a green growing crop (mainly green maize). To obtain the figure for the yield, first a preliminary harvest has been made. This takes place from August to October. The estimate has been made defined from December to March. The yields per hectare are rounded off to the nearst 100 kilogrammes. The total yields are rounded off to the nearst 1000 kilogrammes. Data available from: 1994. Status of the figures: The figures of 2021 are provisional. The figures up to 2020 are defined. Changes as of 29 October 2021: The provisional figures of the harvested areas of 2021 for fibre flax and linseed have been added to the table. The provisional figures of the gross yield per hectare and of the total gross yield of 2021 for grain maize, corn cob mix, green maize, fibre flax, linseed, hemp, chicory, kidney beans, the potatoes total, true potatoes, sugar beet, seed onions and onion sets have been added to the table. When will new figures be published? The preliminary harvest figures for cereals are published at the end of September and for all crops in late October of the harvest year. The final harvest estimate figures are published in January and are updated in March of the following year. These figures can be changed until the end of September.