With 28,700 hectares, North Rhine-Westphalian has the largest vegetable cultivation area in Germany

06/15/2023 | 13:41:00 | ID: 36616 | Department: Agriculture | plant Dýsseldorf (agrar-PR) - In 2022, North Rhine-Westphalian vegetable farmers grew vegetables outdoors on an area of 28,700 hectares; This corresponds roughly to the area covered by the city of Dortmund. Consumer prices for vegetables increased by 13.6 percent between 2021 and 2022. In the NRW industry, the sales value of fruit and vegetable products increased by 6.0 percent in 2022. In NRW, carrots are the type of vegetable with the largest area under cultivation outdoors. On 4,300 hectares, 268,400 tonnes of carrots and carrots were harvested last year in NRW. This made carrots and carrots the vegetable with the largest acreage and the largest harvest volume outdoors. The North Rhine-Westphalian vegetable farmers imported 34.4 percent of the nationwide carrot harvest (780,000 tons). The second largest area under cultivation outdoors was asparagus with 3,900 hectares (productive area); 20,300 tons of asparagus were ...