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

Published 2022년 12월 25일

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North Rhine-Westphalian farmers harvested 4.33 million tons of sugar beets in 2022, marking a slight decrease from the previous year but still within the average of the past six years. The yield per hectare saw a decrease of 6.8%, but was still 2.5% higher than the six-year average. The cultivation area for sugar beets was nearly the same as the previous year, with over two thirds of the harvest done in the administrative districts of Cologne and Düsseldorf. Despite hot and dry summer conditions, favorable growth in October allowed for above-average beet growth and a higher sugar content, mitigating the effects of the summer drought.

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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 ...

Source: Agrar