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Tike examines the trend in the number of farms, their arable area, production sectors and farmers in its annual Farm Structure statistics. The data for the statistics is sourced from the Farm Register. In 2009, farms with more than 100 hectares already accounted for a quarter of Finland’s arable area. Young farmers operated the largest farms.

In 2009, trade, industry and the Agency for Rural Affairs’ Intervention Unit purchased a total of 2 billion kilos of cereals from farms. Industry used a total of 1.3 billion kilos of domestic and imported cereals.

A record amount of food and processed food potatoes was produced last summer, 452 million kilos. In mid-October, on-farm stocks of food potatoes amounted to 225 million kilos. However, by mid-January, on-farm stocks had dwindled at a faster rate than in the previous year, amounting to 132 million kilos on 15 January.