The harvested production of cereals (including rice) in the European Union (EU) was 310 million tonnes in 2017, about 12 % of global production. This represented an increase of 2.7 % (8.2 million tonnes) compared with 2016, despite drought conditions in many areas of central and southern Europe and a reduction in cultivated areas of 1.6 million hectares. In spite of the upturn, the EU's harvested production of cereals in 2017 remained below the 2014 peak of 333 million tonnes.
Common wheat and spelt represented 46 % of all cereal grains harvested in the EU in 2017. As a share, this was followed by grain maize and corn-cob-mix (21 %) and barley (19 %). Oats, rye and other cereals accounted for the remaining 14 % of cereal production.
In terms of cereals production in individual Member States, France produced the highest amounts of common wheat and spelt (36.5 million tonnes), barley (12.1 million tonnes) and grain maize/corn-cob-mix (14.5 million tonnes) in 2017. Poland produced the highest amounts of rye and winter cereal mixtures (2.9 million tonnes) and oats (1.5 million tonnes).
The source dataset is here.
For more information:
- Take a look at the Statistics Explained article 'Agricultural production – crops', which contains production and price statistics on cereals, potatoes, sugar beet and oilseeds, and production statistics on fruit, vegetables, grapes and olives.
- Overview of agricultural statistics.
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