Are there a lot of farms in france?

Question

Are there a lot of farms in france?

Answer 1

yes, there are!

and .. for me .. the most beautilul farms in france are in Franche-Comté, in Doubs!!!

It's in east france..

Answer 2

Yes. Lots of vineyards too.

Answer 3

There are some  680,000 agricultural holdings, 424,000 of them farmed full time,  in France and  910,000 people are employed in agricultural pursuits.

The total agricultural area of metropolitan France is around 33 million hectares, i.e. 60% of the country, the remainder being divided between forest (15 million hectares) and non-agricultural land (7 million). This agricultural area has been slowly decreasing for many years, to the benefit of the other two uses. Some of this land is uncultivated: after some major clearance and drainage operations and return of land to cultivation which went on until the 1970s, the uncultivated area is now stable at about 3 million hectares. Utilized agricultural area (UAA) is therefore about 30 million hectares, i.e. 0.5 hectare per head of population, and about 23% of the total agricultural area of the fifteen EU States.

The greater part of this area (over 61%, compared with 55% in 1950) is arable land: the area still under grass is a little less than 35% of the total, against 38% in 1950; vineyards and orchards now account for only about 4% of it, or just over one million hectares, compared with 2 million in 1950, following moves to concentrate fruit-growing in highly-specialized farms and the grubbing-up of some of the vineyards producing ordinary wine, especially since 1980.

Answer 4

You'd be surprised by how much countryside there is in France.  If you take a train from one city to another, you'll see plenty of farms and cows.  France actually exports agricultural products to other countries (and not just cookies and goose liver pate!).

Answer 5

yes there are a lot of farms in France once you get away from the towns. There are miles of open countryside

Answer 6

Hi,, sure there are... all over the country....

good luck