Fiche VEGETABLE SEEDS 2011

VEGETABLE SEEDS
Relevant key data
Updated: 18/01/2011
MARKET GARDENING
AND VEGETABLE
PRODUCERS
PRODUCTEURS DE
LEGUMES
The total cultivated surface areas (open fields, market gardening, greenhouses)
represent in France 300 000 ha, including 5 000 ha in greenhouses.
The French fresh vegetable production, excluding potatoes, amounted to
6.2 million tons in 2005, which makes France the 3rd largest producer in the
European Union, behind Italy and Spain. The main crops are:
• Tomatoes : 855 000 tons, 22e worldwide position
• Others:
43 000 ha French Beans, 30 000 ha Garden peas
25 000 ha Cauliflowers, 25 000 ha Corn, 16 000 ha Carrot
15 000 ha Melon, 14 000 ha Lettuce, 8 000 ha Lentils
9 300 ha Onion…
OUTLETS FOR There are three main outlets :
• Fresh vegetable production by professionals (4 500 000 tons)
VEGETABLE GROWING
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Transformation (freezing, canning, preparation) : 1,9 million tons of
vegetables are processed by 50 agri-food companies
Home gardening : 7 million home gardens (75 million small seed packages,
700 million seedlings)
PLANT BREEDING, More than 150 varieties are registered yearly :
• More than 2 100 varieties in the French official catalogue, including
VARIETY
270 old varieties
IMPROVEMENT
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22 breeding companies
7 maintenance networks of genetic resources : Artichoke-cardoon (28
accessions), Carrot (400 accessions), Chicory (590 accessions), Cabbage
(1040 accessions), Melon (2 023 accessions), Tomato (735 accessions)
8 to 10 years of research to create a new variety
15 % of turnover is devoted to research
RESEARCH Progress observed by producers and consumers is principally due to genetic
ACHIEVEMENTS improvement :
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4 main breeding objectives :
• Disease resistance
• Technological quality
• Presentation qualities and organoleptic qualities (string less beans
and beans without parchment, carrots with weak ridging surface
and without green crown, juicier and fruitier melons …)
• Product diversification
SEED GROWING, France is the leading producer of vegetable seeds in Europe :
• 19 000 ha of seed growing including (1):
PRODUCTION AND
• Garden peas : 7 000 ha
SEED SALES
• Beans : 1 200 ha
• Carrots : 2 400 ha
• Radish : 600 ha
• Onion : 2 000 ha
• Parsley : 520 ha
• Spinach : 450 ha
• Lentils : 600 ha
• 84 seed producing companies
• More than 19 000 points of sale
• Sales in France (wholesale) : 360 million Euros
(1) average
2008-2010
SEED QUALITY Seed quality is the first security factor for successful crops :
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PEOPLE IN THE SEED
SECTOR
IMPORT,
EXPORT
(Source GNIS)
The technical skills of the seed growers
Pollen isolation assisted by computerised cartography and phytosanitary
isolation of the seed crops
• Setting up of protected zones for seed growing
Specialised professionals devoted to quality :
• 550 breeders and breeding technicians
• 2 200 seed growers, 2 000 young plant producers
• 1 500 technicians for seed production and processing
• 800 sale technicians
• 15 000 points of sale for home gardening
• 12 000 horticulturists and market gardeners
Positive trade balance¹ :
Large Vegetable
Flower & small
seeds
vegetable seeds
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Import
Export
13 million €
12 million €
90 million €
200 million €
¹average 2008-2010
CONTACTS :
GNIS
UFS
FNAMS
FNMJ
FIAC
PLF
F. AGRIMER
CENALDI
CTIFL
UNILET
French interprofessional organisation for seeds and seedlings
44, rue du Louvre – 75001 PARIS – Phone : + 33 (0)1 42 33 51 12
Contact : [email protected] – www.gnis.fr
French seed association for seed companies and plant breeding
17, rue du Louvre - 75001 PARIS - Phone : + 33 (0)1 53 00 99 30
Contact : [email protected] - www.ufs-asso.com
French Federation of seed growers
74, rue J.J. Rousseau – 75001 PARIS – Phone : + 33 (0)1 44 82 73 36
Contact : [email protected] – www.fnams.fr
French Federation for home garden trade
22, Rue Esquirol - 75013 PARIS - Phone : + 33 (0)1 44 24 96 97
Contact : [email protected] – www.fnmj.net/FNMJ
French Federation of canned food industry
44, Rue d'Alésia - 75682 PARIS cedex 14 – Phone : + 33 (0)1 53 91 44 44
Contact : [email protected] – www.adepale.org
French vegetable producers
11, rue de la Baume - 75008 PARIS – Phone : + 33 (0)1 49 49 15 35
Contact : [email protected] – www.fnplegumes.org
FranceAgriMer
12, rue Rol-Tanguy - 93555 MONTREUIL-SOUS-BOIS – Phone : + 33 (0)1 73 30 30 00
Contact : [email protected] – www.franceagrimer.fr
French agro economical committee for industrial vegetables
8, Rue d'Athènes - 75009 PARIS - Phone : + 33 (0)1 45 26 16 25
Contact : [email protected]
Interprofessional technical center for fruits and vegetables
22, rue Bergère - 75012 PARIS – Phone : + 33 (0)1 47 70 16 93
Contact : [email protected] - www.ctifl.fr
Interprofessional union for processed vegetables
44, rue d’Alésia - 75682 PARIS cedex 14 - Phone : + 33 (0)1 53 91 44 44
Contact : [email protected] – www.unilet.fr