North Rhine-Westphalian farmers in Germany harvested seven percent fewer sugar beets than in 2021

12/25/2022 | 03:11:00 | ID: 34968 | Department: Agriculture | plant Dýsseldorf (agrar-PR) - North Rhine-Westphalian farmers harvested 4.33 million tons of sugar beets in this year's harvest .0 percent less than in 2021. However, the harvest volume was "only" 0.6 percent below the average of the beet volume harvested in the years 2016 to 2021. The yield per hectare was 6.8 percent at 79.9 tons lower than a year earlier, but 2.5 percent higher than the average for the past six years. At 54,200 hectares, the area under cultivation for sugar beets was almost (−0.3 percent) as large as in the previous year. More than two thirds (71.8 percent) of the sugar beets harvested in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2022 were grown by farmers in the administrative districts of Cologne ( 1.98 million tons, 45.7 percent) and Düsseldorf (1.13 million tons, 26.1 percent). After the hot and dry weather conditions in this year's summer months did not allow optimal plant development, the favorable growth ...