In 2020, there were 389,800 farms in metropolitan France, about 100,000 fewer than in 2010 at the time of the last Census. The average size of farms continues to increase. The number of specialist livestock farms is decreasing more strongly than the number of specialist crop farms. Non-family permanent employees provide the largest share of the annual number of worked hours in farms. In the overseas departments, there are 26,700 farms in 2020.
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