Two types of cereals

Cereals are Geneva’s flagship crop, covering some 40% of the canton’s agricultural land. There are two groups of cereals, one cultivated for human consumption, and the other as animal feed. Wheat and rye are in the first group, barley, corn and oats in the second. 

Cereals for human consumption are sewn mainly in the fall, between September and the beginning of November. They are harvested the following summer, from the end of June to the beginning of July.

This also applies to feed cereals, except for grain corn which is sewn in the spring and harvested in the fall.

Surface under cultivation (in hectares)