Germany needed a third less imported asparagus

A significant part of Germany's famously high consumption of asparagus is still covered by imports. It is true that, parallel to the rise in cultivation, the demand for imports is constantly decreasing, and last year they bought almost 30% less from abroad than the year before, but it was still 19.5 thousand tons. it was reported by the fruchthandel.de portal based on data from the Federal Statistical Office. The vast majority of them (87%) arrived between March and June, that is, during the period when local farmers are also on the market with their own goods. 34% of the 19.5 thousand tons of imports came from Spain, the second most important supplier was Greece with 24%, and the 12% each from Italy and Peru were also significant. Meanwhile, 110.3 thousand tons of asparagus were harvested on the fields of German farmers last year, i.e. about five times the amount of imports was grown within the country's borders. Anyway, this is also a drop compared to the year before last year, ...