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Mixed farming

Current registrations 20,404division 01: 47,246
Starters, 12 months 4962.4 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 70.3 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 836134 employers · latest accounts
Median age 27.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 92.6%18,896 of 20,404 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 01500 · financial year 2025 · 1,165 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
36.6%
division 36.6% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€12,708
division €15,936 · Belgium €16,468
Median equity
€218,396
division €197,788 · Belgium €98,204
Loss-making
29.6%
division 28.4% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
11.8%
division 13.3% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
6.3%
division 9.7% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.24
division 1.29 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
40.6%
financial year 2024, 1,175 filings · division 37.0% · Belgium 38.5%
Missing or 90 days late
5.3%
of 1,244 companies with annual accounts · division 4.2% · Belgium 5.5%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 29.7%31.9%31.7%34.1%35.7%36.6%
Median net result €8,079€9,103€12,224€11,468€12,456€12,708

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
24
0.12% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
30
1.5 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
01-10-2026 D & J CONSULTING
BE 0436.801.193
01-10-2026 VANTIEGRO
BE 0778.405.402
25-08-2026 AGRIBERT entreprise agricole
BE 0423.265.339
25-06-2026 Bonmariage, Anne-Françoise
BE 0700.650.202 · sole trader · Manhay
20-02-2026 Vandepitte, Jan
BE 0677.231.630 · sole trader · Knokke-Heist
26-01-2026 LV Hof ten Berg - Luycx
BE 0839.599.039
24-12-2025 BRK AGRO
BE 0474.906.159
20-10-2025 Peeters, Edwin
BE 0651.887.906 · sole trader · Faimes

Every bankruptcy in division 01, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 5,294 of 20,404 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Wallonia 3,041 · 57.4%
  • Flanders 2,221 · 42.0%
  • Brussels 29 · 0.5%
  • Abroad 3 · 0.1%
fewer moremax 944

Largest employers

NACE 01500 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 FRUITWERKTongeren-Borgloon 71.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 HANDELSKWEKERIJ WILLAERTRoeselare 43.9 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 DE CEUSTERSint-Katelijne-Waver 42.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 OLBRECHTS BVBASint-Katelijne-Waver 41.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 HOUVARKHouthulst 40.4 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 253 companies
  • 144 Agriculture 146
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 60
  • 145 Horticulture 36
  • 132 Technical farming and horticulture work 24
  • 201 Independent retail 16
  • 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 12
  • 119 Food trade 11
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 8
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  • 302 Hotels and catering 6
  • 124 Construction 5
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 4
  • 118 Food industry 2
  • 121 Cleaning 2
  • 220 White-collar workers in the food industry 2
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 2
  • 333 Tourist attractions 2
  • 336 Liberal professions 2
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 114 Brickworks 1
  • 140 Transport and logistics 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 01: Crop and animal production

Related activities

34 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
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
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
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
Raising of sheep and goats01450 789 35 0 50
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01301 634 8 2 973
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01471 601 34 0 729
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01462 584 14 0 137
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01250 337 17 0 305
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01210 271 23 0 59
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01199 223 17 0 12
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01309 205 15 0 156
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01630 152 2 0 588
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01290 146 6 1 21
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01472 140 17 0 26
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01479 130 13 0 35
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01280 93 9 0 62
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01160 75 6 0 26
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01700 41 7 0 -
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01440 32 3 0 -
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01270 14 0 0 -
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01260 9 1 0 -
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01230 6 0 0 -
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01140 5 0 0 -
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01150 5 0 0 -
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01120 3 0 0 -
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01220 3 0 0 -

Bankruptcies per year in division 01

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies917137446753537370656550
Jobs lost22221148721317568143109114110106

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 01

1,190 employers
Median
€45,500
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€37,300 to €56,600
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
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
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

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 01
Number
108
Half have run longer than
31 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
46%
Belgium: 31%

Measured 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.

Outcome by court and division

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 3,656 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies visserijprojecten
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €120,389 paid 8 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions diverses dans le cadre des relations internationales
  • Federal transfers 5.3m amount as published 5 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelagen voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek betreffende de voedselveiligheid, gezondheidsbeleid en dierenwelzijn aan publiekrechtelijke instellingen, publiekrechtelijke universiteiten, universiteiten van de Gemeenschappen en hun vzw's
  • 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 Mixed farming

Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 6.3% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Liquidity of 1.24 is below Belgium's 1.66. The median net result of €12,708 is below Belgium's €16,468.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 0.3 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 86% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 27.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Wallonia holds 57.5% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. 74.1% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 240 of the 836 FTE: 28.7%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 29.7% in financial year 2020 to 36.6% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €8,079 in financial year 2020 to €12,708 in financial year 2025.

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 01500 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. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. 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.