Agricultural land in the Netherlands remains the most expensive in Europe
Nowhere else in Europe is agricultural land as expensive as in the Netherlands. This is confirmed by the latest figures from the European statistical office Eurostat. An average of 69,632 euros per hectare of arable land in 2019. In almost all European regions, arable land is more expensive than grassland.
In all Dutch regions, the price of arable land was above all other national averages in the European Union. There are, however, large regional differences. For example, arable land on the Spanish Canary Islands was the most expensive with an average of 120,477 euros per hectare in 2020. Arable land was the cheapest in Croatia. In 2020, one hectare there will cost an average of 3,440 euros. On a regional level, one hectare of arable land is the least in the Övre Norrland region of Sweden. That is the most intensive region of Sweden. One hectare of arable land there in 2020 averages 1,822 euros.
Prices for arable land increased between 2011 and 2020 according to Eurostat strongest in Romania and the Czech Republic. In these countries, the price for arable land increased fivefold during this period. Other strong increases were recorded for Estonia and Lithuania, and Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland.
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Also in the more other at the prices. The average price of arable land was about 18 percent in the period 2011-2020.
Farmland prices also vary widely across Europe, both between countries and regions. The lease of one hectare of arable land from permanent grassland was the most expensive in Italy (average 837 euros per year), closely followed by the Netherlands (average 819 euros in 2019).
The highest regional landscape for the lease of arable land from permanent grassland in 2020 was in the Italian region of Friili-Venezia Giulia (1,714 euros), near the border between Austria and Slovenia. Farmland leasing was on average cheapest in Slovakia in 2020 (57 euros per hectare). The visible regions for lease in the EU were Mellersta Norrland and Övre Norrland in Sweden (more than 34 euros per hectare in 2020).