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Germany has seen a record crop of legumes in 2021 due to increased cultivation area, despite challenging conditions for some legumes. The total area for fodder peas and others increased by 11% to 219,000 hectares. Despite these challenges, there was a notable increase in the cultivation of peas and sweet lupins. However, the rainy summer affected field peas and field beans, resulting in lower yields. Despite these challenges, sweet lupins saw a significant yield increase of 13%.
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09/28/2021 | 11:21:00 | ID: 31035 | Department: Agriculture | plant Berlin (agrar-PR) - Germany has a record crop of legumes this year. This is mainly due to the sometimes significantly larger acreage, because the yields were not good for all legumes. The cultivation of fodder peas and Co. for the 2021 harvest was expanded by a total of 11% to 219,000 hectares. And this despite the fact that, according to Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (mbH), there was less room for maneuver for producers in the spring than in the previous year. Nevertheless, the farmers decided to buy more legumes: peas (+ 18%) and sweet lupins (+ 32%) in particular benefited. The soybean area remained stable, the field bean area shrank by 2%. The conditions for growth and pod formation were good, but the rainy summer this year cost the field peas in particular yield. At 301,000 t, only 1% more peas were threshed than in the previous year. The field beans also suffered from the bad weather, so that at ...
Source: Agrar
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