Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities

NACE 01290 · division 01 Crop and animal production

Current registrations 146division 01: 47,253

Starters, 12 months 1,894division 01 · 4.0 per 100 · Belgium 7.5

Bankruptcies, 5 years 32.05% of the registrations · Belgium 1.61%

Employment (FTE) 16,665division 01 · financial year 2025

Median age 18.8 yearsdivision 01 · Belgium 10.7 years

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 01 · financial year 2025 · 6,979 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

36.6%

Belgium 46.2%

Median net result

€16,003

Belgium €16,569

Median equity

€198,058

Belgium €98,595

Loss-making

28.4%

Belgium 26.7%

Negative equity

13.3%

Belgium 12.4%

Median return on equity

9.7%

Belgium 16.0%

Median liquidity

1.30

Belgium 1.66

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 01

1,193 employers

Median

€45,300

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€37,300 to €56,700

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

74 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€45,200	€36,700 to €56,700	852
10 to 49 FTE	€46,000	€39,100 to €56,600	295
50 to 249 FTE	€44,100	€37,700 to €56,100	43

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 12 months

division 01 · 1.0 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 5.5

Recent bankruptcies

Date	Company
31-12-2025	RE:THRIVE BE 1024.140.252
14-12-2023	Wijngaardhof BE 0784.775.926
27-04-2022	Muisven Landbouwonderneming BE 0742.729.592

Every bankruptcy in division 01, last 90 days

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 01

Number

109

Half have run longer than

30 months

Belgium: 20 months

Longer than three years

46%

Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,424 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn.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 1 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.

Outcome by court and division

Spread across the country

by region and province · 65 of 146 enterprises with a registered office on file

Wallonia 35 · 53.8%
Flanders 30 · 46.2%

West Flanders WVL 6

East Flanders OVL 6

Antwerp ANT 11

Flemish Brabant VLB 1

Limburg LIM 6

Brussels BRU 0

Hainaut HAI 10

Walloon Brabant WBR 2

Namur NAM 12

Liège LIE 8

Luxembourg LUX 3

fewer moremax 12

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

7 of the 15,515 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 14,737 FTE: 1.8%, against 15% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €279.4m awarded 3,656 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies visserijprojecten
Federal transfers 355.9m amount as published 9 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelagen OCMW's recht op maatschappelijke integratie
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €16.9m paid 13 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions forfaitaires dans le fondamental
EU budget €50.9m attributed share 11 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
EU research €76.5m eu contribution 12 recipients · 2009 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities

The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 01 is lower than that of 78% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.

This sector's historical share is higher than that of 72% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.

The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 01 is 0.1%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 11,077 scored companies.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 01-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 01290 exists.

The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

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 "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.

The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 01, not only NACE 01290. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's 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.