Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities
Activities
NACE division 01 · 35 activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed farming01500 | 20,404 | 496 | 7 | 836 |
| Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds01110 | 5,022 | 209 | 1 | 471 |
| Support activities for crop production01610 | 4,622 | 272 | 6 | 1,587 |
| Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers01130 | 2,891 | 116 | 8 | 5,145 |
| Raising of dairy cattle01410 | 2,450 | 81 | 0 | 112 |
| Raising of horses and other equines01430 | 1,941 | 116 | 8 | 268 |
| Raising of other animals01480 | 1,698 | 159 | 3 | 441 |
| Support activities for animal production01620 | 1,569 | 112 | 7 | 545 |
| Growing of pome and stone fruits01240 | 1,324 | 29 | 1 | 828 |
| Pig breeding farms01461 | 892 | 23 | 0 | 187 |
| Growing of flowers01191 | 861 | 35 | 2 | 1,105 |
| Raising of other cattle and buffaloes01420 | 810 | 63 | 0 | 21 |
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Filed accounts
NACE division 01 · financial year 2025 · 7,015 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 29.1% | 30.0% | 30.5% | 33.0% | 35.7% | 36.6% |
| Median net result | - | - | €11,584 | €10,632 | €10,914 | €13,834 | €14,104 | €15,008 |
| Filed late | 38.8% | 44.8% | 47.3% | 44.4% | 40.6% | 38.6% | 37.0% | - |
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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 01
1,190 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €45,300 | €36,700 to €56,600 | 847 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €46,300 | €39,100 to €56,600 | 297 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €44,100 | €37,700 to €56,100 | 43 |
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Bankruptcies
Bankruptcies per year in division 01
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 91 | 71 | 37 | 44 | 67 | 53 | 53 | 73 | 70 | 65 | 65 | 50 |
| Jobs lost | 222 | 211 | 48 | 72 | 131 | 75 | 68 | 143 | 109 | 114 | 110 | 106 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 05-11-2026 | Mahy, Vince
BE 0778.280.389 · sole trader · Jemeppe-sur-Sambre |
| 23-10-2026 | OLI AMENAGEMENTS
BE 0795.102.763 |
| 12-10-2026 | Zanga Ekom, Jélyssa
BE 1018.461.297 · sole trader · Herstal |
| 09-10-2026 | Van de Kerkhof, Eduard
BE 0744.151.831 · sole trader · Duffel |
| 02-10-2026 | ENTREPRISES MALACORD
BE 0431.048.697 |
| 02-10-2026 | LES JARDINS DE JULIETTE
BE 0768.499.029 |
| 01-10-2026 | D & J CONSULTING
BE 0436.801.193 |
| 01-10-2026 | VANTIEGRO
BE 0778.405.402 |
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 01Measured nationally: Of 108,810 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 14 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 16,270 of 47,246 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 01 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 DEN BERKMerksplas 450 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 BELORTASint-Katelijne-Waver 421 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 BIOBEST GROUPWesterlo 290 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 PLUKON MOUSCRONMouscron 230 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 STOFFELSRijkevorsel 194 FTEfinancial year 2026
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 1,877 companies- 144 Agriculture 637
- 145 Horticulture 625
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 590
- 132 Technical farming and horticulture work 260
- 201 Independent retail 102
- 119 Food trade 69
- 124 Construction 54
- 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 53
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- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 48
- 302 Hotels and catering 25
- 118 Food industry 19
- 140 Transport and logistics 19
- 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 15
- 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 14
- 149.04 Metal trade 10
- 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 9
- 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 9
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 9
- 116 Chemical industry 6
- 121 Cleaning 6
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
7 of the 15,518 companies in NACE division 01 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (3), France (2) and Germany (1). Together they employ 269 of the division's 14,726 FTE: 1.8%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €279.4m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €120,389 paid
- Federal transfers 5.3m amount as published
- EU budget €50.9m attributed share
- EU research €76.5m EU contribution
Insights on Crop and animal production
Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 9.7% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Liquidity of 1.29 is below Belgium's 1.66. Solvency of 36.6% is below Belgium's 46.1%.
Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 1.0 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 80% of the 87 other NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%. By size, the median bankruptcy probability is 0.1% at under 10 FTE, 0.1% at 10 to 49 FTE and 0.1% at 50 to 249 FTE.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 18.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Wallonia holds 36.6% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. 65.6% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. The median staff cost per FTE of €45,528 is below Belgium's €61,428. The 5 largest employers hold 1,585 of the 14,726 FTE: 10.8%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 29.1% in financial year 2020 to 36.6% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €11,584 in financial year 2020 to €15,008 in financial year 2025. In 2025, Statbel counted 65 bankruptcies and 110 jobs lost, against 53 bankruptcies in 2020.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 14-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 01 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,430 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 700,464 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.