Arboriculture farms and orchards - Agricultural census 2010
Primeur N° 277
Walnut orchards are now the second largest in France
In 2010, the orchard surface area in metropolitan France was 134,000 hectares which is 28,000 hectares less than in 2000. Apart from kiwis and walnuts, all other fruit tree areas are on the decrease. But the pace at which fruit farms have been going out of business has been even quicker with the result that the average size of orchards per farm increased between 2000 and 2010.