This is the time of the year when pumpkins are harvested in the EU and when they are particularly popular for cooking tasty meals or carving out spooky lanterns.
In 2020, about 31 000 hectares across the EU were devoted to cultivating them and other types of gourds, and an estimated 760 000 tonnes were harvested. About 85% of all pumpkins and gourdes in the EU were produced in just five Member States in 2020: Poland (with 163 900 tonnes), Spain (143 850 tonnes), France (126 230 tonnes), Portugal (121 060 tonnes) and Germany (86 890 tonnes).
Source dataset: apro_cpsh1
When it comes to imports and exports, these were smaller when compared with production. In 2020, the EU imported 48 841 tonnes of pumpkins, squash and gourds from abroad, 57% more than in 2019. The highest share of imports in 2020 came from South Africa (24%), followed by Morocco (12%), Brazil (11%) and Argentina (10%).
Source dataset: DS-645593
In 2020, the EU exported 22 614 tonnes of pumpkins, squash and gourds outside the EU, 4% more than in 2019. These exports were mainly to the United Kingdom (69%) and Switzerland (18%).
Among EU Member States, Spain exported the most pumpkins, squash and gourds to non-EU countries (48% of the extra-EU exports in volume) in 2020, followed by Portugal (25%), ahead of France (11%) and the Netherlands (6%).
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- Database of statistics on international trade in goods
- Overview of statistics on international trade in goods
- The United Kingdom is considered as an extra-EU partner country for the EU for the whole period covered by this article. However, the United Kingdom was still part of the internal market until the end of the transition period (31 December 2020), meaning that data on trade with the United Kingdom were still based on statistical concepts applicable to trade between the EU Member States. Consequently, while imports from any other extra-EU trade partner are grouped by country of origin, the United Kingdom data reflect the country of consignment. In practice this means that the goods imported by the EU from the United Kingdom were physically transported from the United Kingdom but part of these goods could have been of other origin than the United Kingdom. For this reason, data on trade with the United Kingdom are not fully comparable with data on trade with other extra-EU trade partners.
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