FAOSTAT · 2024
Agricultural production in France
According to FAOSTAT, France produced 53.6 million t of cereals (12th in the world), 5.5 million t of vegetables, 8.3 million t of fruit, 5.2 million t of meat (15th in the world) and 25.2 million t of milk (8th in the world) in 2024. Its largest crops by volume were sugar beet (32.6 million t), wheat (26.6 million t) and maize (14.7 million t).
- Products recorded
- 117
- World #1
- 4
- products
- World top 10
- 53
- products
- Year
- 2024
France is the world’s largest producer of wine, flax, raw or retted, true hemp, raw or retted and cheese from milk of goats, fresh or processed, and ranks second or third for 11 other products.
Among its twelve largest crops, the biggest ten-year change was in dry onions (+107%), followed by flax, raw or retted (+104%).
Livestock numbers: 16.5 million cattle, 11.7 million pigs, 6.6 million sheep and 1.3 million goats.
Totals by group
| Group | Tonnes | World rank | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All cereals | 53,553,470 | 12 | 1.71% | −26% |
| All sugar crops | 32,594,090 | 10 | 1.46% | −14% |
| All milk | 25,244,570 | 8 | 2.56% | −2.3% |
| All roots and tubers | 9,237,460 | 23 | 0.98% | +14% |
| All fruit | 8,319,401 | 22 | 0.87% | −11% |
| All vegetables | 5,489,000 | 24 | 0.46% | +10% |
| All meat | 5,183,266 | 15 | 1.39% | −7.4% |
| All pulses | 841,760 | 21 | 0.87% | −3.0% |
| All citrus fruit | 97,900 | 65 | 0.06% | +84% |
| All tree nuts | 49,290 | 43 | 0.27% | −11% |
All products by volume, 2024
| Product | Tonnes | World rank | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar beet | 32,594,090 | 3 | 11.1% | −14% |
| Wheat | 26,606,940 | 8 | 3.33% | −32% |
| Cow milk | 24,204,280 | 8 | 3.04% | −3.1% |
| Maize | 14,670,620 | 10 | 1.2% | −20% |
| Barley | 9,669,250 | 4 | 6.81% | −18% |
| Potatoes | 9,237,460 | 8 | 2.37% | +14% |
| Skim milk of cows | 8,884,571 | 3 | 6.22% | −5.7% |
| Wine | 4,762,507 | 1 | 19.49% | +11% |
| Grapes | 4,747,450 | 5 | 6.25% | −24% |
| Raw sugar | 4,147,733 | 11 | 2.21% | −4.2% |
| Rapeseed | 3,941,140 | 6 | 4.49% | −29% |
| Beer | 2,160,000 | 16 | 1.17% | +50% |
| Pork (pig meat) | 2,094,250 | 9 | 1.67% | −1.2% |
| Apples | 1,964,030 | 9 | 2.01% | +6.3% |
| Rapeseed or canola oil, crude | 1,886,800 | 5 | 6.01% | +1.7% |
| Cheese from whole cow milk | 1,731,360 | 3 | 7.53% | −3.2% |
| Sunflower seed | 1,479,770 | 10 | 2.83% | −6.6% |
| Beef (cattle meat) | 1,298,540 | 10 | 1.86% | −8.0% |
| Chicken meat | 1,245,830 | 26 | 0.97% | +9.1% |
| Triticale | 1,087,820 | 3 | 8.77% | −46% |
| Flax, raw or retted | 1,059,080 | 1 | 81.89% | +104% |
| Molasses | 1,008,964 | 12 | 1.38% | +3.0% |
| Onions, dry | 778,580 | 27 | 0.72% | +107% |
| Goat milk | 703,230 | 5 | 3.44% | +19% |
| Tomatoes | 692,430 | 34 | 0.37% | +14% |
| Carrots and turnips | 662,380 | 12 | 1.47% | +22% |
| Sunflower-seed oil, crude | 619,600 | 7 | 2.73% | −5.0% |
| Yoghurt | 573,490 | 3 | 11.51% | +1.6% |
| Peas, dry | 486,710 | 6 | 3.44% | −9.6% |
| Cream, fresh | 470,060 | 2 | 12.65% | +14% |
| Green maize | 459,300 | 7 | 4.86% | +14% |
| Sorghum | 447,110 | 21 | 0.7% | +12% |
| Lettuce and chicory | 433,890 | 12 | 1.54% | +82% |
| Whey, dry | 420,720 | 2 | 12.74% | −33% |
| Other vegetables, fresh n.e.c. | 409,620 | 42 | 0.15% | −52% |
| Butter of cow milk | 403,970 | 4 | 6.75% | +0.7% |
| Soybeans | 398,540 | 16 | 0.1% | +75% |
| Pumpkins and squash | 379,910 | 17 | 1.1% | +282% |
| Sheep milk | 337,060 | 11 | 3.43% | +30% |
| Melons | 322,410 | 16 | 1.14% | +27% |
| Other beans, green | 317,960 | 5 | 1.23% | +430% |
| Cheese from skimmed cow milk | 308,693 | 2 | 11.28% | −0.3% |
| Oats | 302,700 | 19 | 1.35% | −55% |
| Cereals n.e.c. | 297,400 | 3 | 3.71% | +167% |
| Skim milk and whey powder | 293,670 | 5 | 6.23% | +18% |
| Mixed grain | 291,320 | 2 | 17.94% | +31% |
| Peas, green | 260,130 | 4 | 1.2% | +10% |
| Turkey meat | 256,450 | 4 | 5.04% | −32% |
| Peaches and nectarines | 236,720 | 11 | 0.85% | +0.9% |
| Tallow | 218,100 | 6 | 2.65% | +14% |
| Broad beans and horse beans, dry | 216,350 | 7 | 3.46% | −22% |
| Bananas | 210,920 | 51 | 0.15% | — |
| Cauliflower and broccoli | 203,960 | 11 | 0.76% | −38% |
| Cabbages | 188,630 | 34 | 0.25% | −3.5% |
| Duck meat | 187,810 | 2 | 2.56% | −34% |
| Cucumbers | 178,940 | 29 | 0.2% | +36% |
| Plums | 170,510 | 13 | 1.34% | −15% |
| Leeks | 159,100 | 2 | 7.45% | −4.1% |
| Pears | 151,870 | 15 | 0.55% | +15% |
| Pig fat, rendered | 142,862 | 8 | 2.31% | +8.4% |
| True hemp, raw or retted | 135,530 | 1 | 36.78% | +11,634% |
| Other pulses n.e.c. | 128,630 | 9 | 2.89% | +2,044% |
| Rye | 108,350 | 18 | 0.93% | −16% |
| Whole milk, condensed | 103,640 | 4 | 5.28% | +98% |
| Soya bean oil | 102,000 | 32 | 0.17% | −5.0% |
| Mushrooms | 99,970 | 10 | 0.19% | −8.0% |
| Cheese from milk of goats, fresh or processed | 89,440 | 1 | 19.58% | −5.3% |
| Apricots | 82,760 | 13 | 1.8% | −53% |
| Spinach | 81,560 | 13 | 0.27% | −31% |
| Strawberries | 76,210 | 21 | 0.71% | +30% |
| Whole milk powder | 73,590 | 10 | 1.47% | −20% |
| Rice (paddy) | 71,960 | 78 | 0.01% | −14% |
| Sheep meat | 67,960 | 31 | 0.59% | −38% |
| Oil of maize | 63,300 | 11 | 2.06% | −8.1% |
| Cheese from milk of sheep, fresh or processed | 61,090 | 4 | 11.74% | +84% |
| Tangerines and mandarins | 53,170 | 34 | 0.1% | +28% |
| Margarine and shortening | 52,800 | 33 | 0.4% | +25% |
| Kiwi fruit | 50,760 | 8 | 1.15% | −16% |
| Eggplants | 42,830 | 40 | 0.07% | +44% |
| Broad beans and horse beans, green | 41,180 | 11 | 2.82% | +318% |
| Linseed | 39,620 | 9 | 1.32% | +139% |
| Other tropical fruits, n.e.c. | 38,820 | 32 | 0.16% | — |
| Green garlic | 28,770 | 31 | 0.1% | +59% |
| Cherries | 28,350 | 18 | 0.91% | −40% |
| Olives | 28,200 | 24 | 0.11% | +117% |
| Walnuts, in shell | 27,710 | 13 | 0.64% | −20% |
| Asparagus | 27,570 | 8 | 0.31% | +34% |
| Other oil seeds, n.e.c. | 27,260 | 22 | 1.12% | +65% |
| Buttermilk, dry | 26,950 | 6 | 4.11% | +16% |
| Cheese from milk of buffalo, fresh or processed | 25,170 | 6 | 3.85% | −16% |
| Watermelons | 22,870 | 85 | 0.02% | +42% |
| Artichokes | 21,550 | 12 | 1.24% | −44% |
| Rabbit meat | 21,365 | 5 | 2.52% | −60% |
| Whole milk, evaporated | 20,873 | 24 | 0.73% | −74% |
| Chillies and peppers, green | 20,740 | 69 | 0.05% | −9.7% |
| Honey | 20,034 | 21 | 1.01% | +103% |
| Lemons and limes | 14,330 | 52 | 0.06% | +249% |
| Oil of linseed | 10,800 | 12 | 1.38% | +53,900% |
| Currants | 10,650 | 5 | 1.51% | −11% |
| Lupins | 10,070 | 10 | 0.67% | −33% |
| Grapefruit and pomelos | 9,040 | 36 | 0.09% | +124% |
| Chestnuts, in shell | 8,950 | 11 | 0.43% | +3.3% |
| Blueberries | 8,621 | 13 | 0.62% | −16% |
| Hazelnuts, in shell | 8,450 | 11 | 0.7% | −24% |
| Oranges | 8,060 | 78 | 0.01% | +120% |
| Raspberries | 7,480 | 15 | 0.81% | +66% |
| Figs | 7,450 | 24 | 0.56% | +168% |
| Goat meat | 5,830 | 70 | 0.08% | −52% |
| Olive oil | 3,700 | 23 | 0.14% | −23% |
| Oil of sesame seed | 3,585 | 31 | 0.3% | −28% |
| Tobacco, unmanufactured | 2,650 | 63 | 0.04% | −73% |
| Sour cherries | 2,640 | 23 | 0.18% | — |
| Almonds, in shell | 2,180 | 25 | 0.06% | +104% |
| Avocados | 1,480 | 53 | 0.01% | +55% |
| Hop cones | 670 | 13 | 0.42% | +5.3% |
| Oil of palm kernel | 126 | 41 | 0% | — |
| Safflower-seed oil, crude | 97 | 15 | 0.13% | +7.8% |
Live animals, 2024
| Product | Head | World rank | Share | 10-year change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chickens | 229,317,000 | 21 | 0.83% | −5.7% |
| Ducks | 22,829,000 | 6 | 1.79% | −15% |
| Cattle | 16,478,260 | 21 | 1.04% | −14% |
| Turkeys | 14,092,000 | 5 | 5.79% | −34% |
| Pigs | 11,714,940 | 11 | 1.22% | −12% |
| Sheep | 6,607,000 | 46 | 0.48% | −8.0% |
| Goats | 1,339,000 | 73 | 0.11% | +4.2% |
| Rabbits and hares | 361,000 | 19 | 0.17% | −57% |
| Horses | 289,788 | 30 | 0.52% | −29% |
| Geese | 220,000 | 16 | 0.06% | −59% |
Source: FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products. Accessed on 4 November 2026. fao.org/faostat. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Charts, rankings and changes calculated by Husfarm.