Horticultural Statistics
Horticultural Statistics 2011 (final statistics) and Energy Consumption in Greenhouse Enterprises
14.05.2012
- The total energy consumption of greenhouse companies was 1 700 GWh.
- Total energy consumption decreased (-1.8%) but power consumption increased (+1.4%) in comparison to 2008.
- Power was consumed the most, 481 GWh. It was primarily needed for lighting greenhouses.
- Light fuel oil was the most common heating fuel. Almost 70% of the responding companies used it.
- Heavy fuel oil (277 GWh) and sod peat (228 GWh) were the most important heating fuels in terms of usage.
- The use of heavy fuel oil and natural gas decreased the most extensively. The use of peat, wood and fuel chips increased. However, the use of wood pellets decreased.
- Finnish wood- and peat-based energy (including field biomass) covered one-third of the total energy consumption of greenhouses.
- There were 4,304 horticultural enterprises in 2011.
- Outdoor production area was 16,563 hectares and greenhouse area 411 hectares.
- Regarding area, the most important outdoor vegetables were garden pea (2,998 hectares), carrot (1,663 hectares) and onion (1,115 hectares).
- The total outdoor vegetable harvest was 186 million kilos, and a record-high 73 million kilos of it was carrot.
- 16 million kilos of berries were produced in an area of 6,073 hectares. Strawberry was the most important berry (13 million kilos and 3,386 hectares).
- Greenhouse vegetable production was about 81 million kilos, of which 40 million was tomato, and a record-high 37 million kilos was cucumber.
- 98 million pots of pot vegetables were produced, marking an increase of 16.6 million compared to the previous year.
- The cut flower area decreased to 13 hectares.
- A top volume of tulips were forced: 63 million onions.
As provisional statistics (2 April), the information only changed for pot vegetables.

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