Agricultural and horticultural companies

Remarks: The number of companies in Belgium producing for sale is increasing by 0.7 %. This is because, on the one hand, the definition of an active farmer was relaxed in 2018 and, on the other hand, a further refinement of the Statbel Farmer Register took place. This also leads to an increase in the agricultural area, the number of cattle and pigs. The large increase in the surface mixtures of leguminous crops in Wallonia is due to the fact that, from 2018, a distinction is made between mixtures of cereals and legumes (submitted under the heading of other cereals) and mixtures of leguminous and cereals on the other (submitted to the mixtures of legumes). Until 2017 you did not have this division, so the entire area was housed among other cereals. This also results in a decrease in the surface area of other cereals in Wallonia. In 2018, there is a trend break for poultry. There is a great increase to be observed. This is because until 2017 the holdings did not have to give up poultry in the event of a sanitary vacancy. It was asked about the number of animals present on October 15. If the barn was empty on that day, they would have no animals. As of 2018, the holdings that had empty stables for sanitary reasons (cleaning the stables or disease outbreak) have to give up the number of animals present in the stables before the sanitary vacancy. Metadata Livestock Stack SANITEL: System of registration and monitoring of Belgian livestock