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Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities

Current registrations 41division 01: 47,260
Starters, 12 months 717.1 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Median age 8.5 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 80.5%33 of 41 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 13 of 41 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 8 · 61.5%
  • Wallonia 4 · 30.8%
  • Brussels 1 · 7.7%
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Companies

41 with this main activity

Division 01: Crop and animal production

Related activities

34 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Mixed farming01500 20,418 497 7 835
Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds01110 5,021 208 1 471
Support activities for crop production01610 4,621 269 6 1,581
Growing of vegetables, melons, roots and tubers01130 2,891 115 9 5,147
Raising of dairy cattle01410 2,451 81 0 112
Raising of horses and other equines01430 1,940 115 8 268
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Raising of other animals01480 1,699 159 3 441
Support activities for animal production01620 1,569 112 7 545
Growing of pome and stone fruits01240 1,326 29 1 828
Pig breeding farms01461 892 23 0 187
Growing of flowers01191 862 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 600 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 338 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 224 17 0 12
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01309 206 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 92 9 0 62
Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities01160 75 6 0 26
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 -

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 01 · financial year 2025 · 7,009 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
36.6%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€15,999
Belgium €16,500
Median equity
€197,895
Belgium €98,350
Loss-making
28.4%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
13.2%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
9.7%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.29
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
36.9%
financial year 2024, 6,293 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
4.2%
of 7,404 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --29.1%30.0%30.5%33.0%35.7%36.6%
Median net result --€11,591€10,642€10,938€13,867€14,104€15,030
Filed late 38.8%44.8%47.2%44.3%40.6%38.5%36.9%-

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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 €56,700
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
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €45,300 €36,700 to €56,600 848
10 to 49 FTE €46,400 €39,100 to €56,600 296
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 108,642 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 7 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 15,519 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 14,720 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
  • 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
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €120,389 paid 8 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions diverses dans le cadre des relations internationales
  • 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

Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 17.1 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 95% of the 87 NACE divisions. 68.3% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. This activity holds 0.1% of the registrations of Crop and animal production.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 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 01700 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 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 01700, 6 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.