In 2007 there were 23,300 agricultural holdings in Estonia

According to Statistics Estonia, in 2007 there were 23,300 agricultural holdings in Estonia, i.e. almost a fifth less than two years before. Agricultural area and production has concentrated mainly into larger holdings with more than 50 hectares of agricultural area.

The number of agricultural holdings has decreased rapidly since 2001. The decrease has occurred mostly on account of smaller holdings. In 2007, the number of small holdings with less than 10 hectares was 13,500. Though their number has decreased by one third during the two years, their proportion was still 58% of the total number of holdings in the previous year. The number of medium-sized holdings with 10–50 hectares has also decreased. At the same time the number of larger holdings with more than 50 hectares increased. In 2007, their number was 2,600 or 11% of the total number of holdings.

Different from the number of holdings, the agricultural area has not decreased. In 2007, the size of agricultural area together with the permanent grassland not used for production purposes but maintained in good agricultural and environmental conditions was 906,800 hectares. Almost half of the agricultural area is rented land.

The average agricultural area per holding was 39 hectares, which is 30% more than two years ago. So the changes of the land area among holdings have continued in 2005–2007. The agricultural area of small and medium-sized holdings has decreased by 13,000 hectares. The largest proportion of the agricultural area belongs to large holdings. In 2007, 77% of the total agricultural area was at their disposal, which is 91,000 hectares more than two years ago. The average agricultural area of a large holding was 270 hectares.