France is Europe's third-largest market garden producer, just behind Italy and Spain.
The country has around 31,000 vegetable growers, 28,000 fruit growers and 19,500 potato growers.
Market gardening is mainly carried out under glass, in tunnels or in open fields.
However, France stands out as Europe's leading producer of canned vegetables and ranks second in the production of frozen vegetables.
Market gardening is the commercial production of fruit and vegetables.
You can buy rural farms dedicated to conventional, High Environmental Value or Organic vegetable production.
The market gardening sector can be divided into seven distinct economic activities:
- Market gardening, which covers the production of vegetables.
- Fruit growing, dedicated to the production of fruit.
- Ornamental horticulture, which includes the production of various plants.
- Floriculture, specialising in the production of flowers.
- Nurseries, which produce woody species, trees and shrubs, both ornamental and non-ornamental.
- Greenhouse agriculture, used to grow vegetables, flowers and nursery plants.
- Landscaping, an economic activity linked to the creation and maintenance of gardens and open spaces.
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The majority of organic market garden produce is distributed via small, short distribution channels, including basket systems (such as AMAP: Associations pour le Maintien d'une Agriculture Paysanne), local markets, direct farm sales, farm shops and pick-your-own.
Market gardeners are mainly based in the west of France, particularly in Brittany, Aquitaine, Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. These regions are characterised by an oceanic climate, with temperate to mild winters and cool to hot summers, as well as abundant rainfall. This oceanic climate provides particularly favourable conditions for market gardening.
First of all, you need to define and develop your market-gardening project, and choose the location where you want to set up farming.
The size of the farm you want is crucial, in terms of the number of hectares of land. You need to find the right balance between the volume of work required and your availability (including employees if necessary).
Note that you are not obliged to buy the entire farmed area. You can buy farmland and also rent land under a rural lease.
You should then carry out a 1st financial approach to check the feasibility of your project in terms of investment and financing. And the ability of your future farm to generate sufficient income to cover your expenses, annual repayments and remuneration.
Market garden farms often include a dwelling, such as a farmhouse, which can increase the purchase price. However, the presence of a house is essential to meet the need for on-site accommodation for workers.
These differences lead to wide variations in the selling prices of farms in France. You'll find organic market garden farms for sale from €200,000 upwards.
Feel free to download our free white paper presenting all the stages involved in setting up a farm.
Market gardening requires a variety of equipment to ensure efficient, high-quality production. Essential equipment includes the grelinette, a gardening tool that enables the soil to be worked in depth while preserving its structure. Silage tarpaulins made from UV-treated polyethylene are also essential for protecting crops and optimising their growth. The rototiller, equipped with various attachments for different tasks, makes ploughing, soil preparation and other agricultural work easier. The rotary harrow is a multi-purpose tool for preparing seedbeds and levelling the soil, while the rake is used for loosening and carefully preparing beds for cultivation.
Visit ma-propriete-agricole.fr, you will find market gardening land for sale throughout France.
If you are interested in buying a market garden farm, we present a very wide range of advertisements in all regions and departments.
In addition to the vegetable farms for sale in this category, you will also find on our portal farms specialising in the sector that interests you:
mixed farming, beef meat, pork, sheep, goats, poultry, laying hens, rabbits, milk, arable crops, specialist crops, arboriculture, horticulture, dog boarding,and other productions and also shares in agricultural companies.
The main advertisements for market garden farms for sale come from farmers or estate agents, most of whom specialise in farm transactions.
ma-propriete.fr is the ideal site for advertising the sale of your market garden farm, whatever its production or geographical location in France.
If you advertise your market garden for 6 months, you will benefit from the high visibility of our rural portal and will be contacted by many potential buyers.
You can modify your sale advert at any time and publish it in 1 or 2 categories or sub-categories on our portal. You will have access to your ad's visibility statistics and will receive contact forms directly to your email inbox.
Whether you are a farmer wishing to sell your market garden farm, or a property professional, our portal will meet your needs to ensure the successful sale of your market garden property. The experts in charge of this property will be able to guide you through the process.
