01 - CROP AND ANIMAL PRODUCTION, HUNTING AND RELATED SERVICE ACTIVITIES Companies in Belgium
Approximately 112,735 real businesses classified under 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities in Belgium, with officer, shareholder and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Approximately 112,735 real businesses classified under 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities operate in Belgium. Covers companies officially classified under NACEBEL 2008 code 01 (Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities), part of Belgium's NACEBEL 2008 classification of economic activities. This division is one of the sub-sectors making up the broader Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector. Ownership, beneficial-ownership disclosure and company-registration rules for businesses under this specific activity code follow the same general framework that applies across Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing in Belgium.
10 companies under this specific code are indexed on Zavia so far, part of a continually growing dataset.
Beneficial-ownership and registration rules for Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing companies in Belgium follow the same national framework as every other sector there.
Full Belgium beneficial ownership overviewTop 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities Companies in Belgium
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Data Coverage
Record counts for SIC Code A in Belgium, as of the last reconciliation.
Section A is 3% of the Belgium register by entity count and its 13th largest sector — see all sectors.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you
Agriculture in Belgium is mid-transition through a mandatory legal-form restructuring. Until recently, the landbouwvennootschap (agricultural partnership) was a dedicated legal form combining partnership flexibility with a choice between personal and corporate income tax, and letting a managing partner-tenant transfer a lease without the formal lease-transfer process other tenants require. Its managing partners, however, carried unlimited personal liability for the partnership’s obligations.
That form has since been phased out: every landbouwvennootschap had to convert to one of several successor structures — a BVLO, CVLO, commVLO or VOFLO — by 31 December 2023. For verification, a Belgian farm’s current legal form is likely the result of that relatively recent, mandatory conversion rather than a longstanding structural choice, and confirming which successor form it actually became changes what liability protection its operators now carry — a real distinction from the old landbouwvennootschap’s unlimited-liability managing partners.
What changed recently
Sector-specific developments that change how this data is used. Each carries a verification date so it can be refreshed on a schedule.
The EU deforestation rules apply from 30 December 2026
The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires operators placing cattle, wood, cocoa, coffee, palm oil or soya on the EU market to prove their supply chains are deforestation-free. After two postponements — originally due 30 December 2024, then pushed to 30 December 2025 — the Council of the EU adopted a further revision in December 2025 moving the application date for all operators to 30 December 2026, with an additional six-month allowance for micro and small operators to 30 June 2027. For Belgium operators and exporters supplying the EU market, this is now the operative compliance deadline.
Source: Council of the EU, 18 December 2025 · Last verified 11 October 2026.
Belgium Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing, by the register
Charts render from live counts. Modules are suppressed where coverage is too thin to be meaningful.
Entities by sub-sector
SIC division level, live from official registries.
Active vs. inactive
Section A entities currently on the register as active, vs. struck off or dormant.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file, Section A, Belgium. 23 entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Who uses Belgium agriculture, forestry and fishing ownership data
The three checks this sector's data is most often run for.
EUDR supply-chain due diligence
Proving a Belgian wood, soy-feed or cattle supplier is who they claim to be, upstream of the first EU-bound trader, before the December 2026 deadline. Belgian farms increasingly operate through one of several successor company forms after the landbouwvennootschap (agricultural partnership) was phased out.
Post-landbouwvennootschap legal-form transition
Belgium’s dedicated agricultural partnership form, the landbouwvennootschap, had to convert to a BVLO, CVLO, commVLO or VOFLO by 31 December 2023 — meaning a farm’s current legal form reflects a relatively recent, mandatory restructuring rather than a long-standing choice.
Managing-partner unlimited liability check
Under the former landbouwvennootschap structure, managing partners carried unlimited personal liability for the partnership’s obligations — confirming which successor form a farm actually converted to changes what liability protection, if any, its operators now have.
Sub-sectors within Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
SIC divisions inside this section, each with its own Belgium company directory.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies are classified under 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities in Belgium?
Approximately 112,735 businesses are classified under 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities in Belgium.
What does NACEBEL 2008 code 01 cover?
01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities is the official name for this activity under Belgium's NACEBEL 2008 classification of economic activities. It is a sub-category within the broader Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector.
How is this different from the broader Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing category?
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing is the top-level sector; NACEBEL 2008 code 01 identifies one specific activity within it, letting you narrow a search to exactly this business type rather than the whole sector.
What ownership information is available for these companies?
The same beneficial-ownership, shareholder and officer disclosure framework applies as for any other company in Belgium, regardless of its specific activity classification. See the individual company profile for the full ownership picture, or the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector overview for the general national framework.
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