WIESBADEN (dpa-AFX) - More organic vegetables grown in Germany: 19,350 hectares in Germany were farmed organically last year, five percent more than in 2023, according to the Federal Statistical Office. On this area, farms harvested 529,800 tons of organic vegetables - an increase of 10.4 percent on the previous year.
Organic cultivation in Germany is dominated by beet, pumpkins, zucchinis, peas and carrots. According to the Wiesbaden statisticians, 15.3 percent of the total area under vegetable cultivation in Germany is now organically farmed, and 12.7 percent of the total harvest is organic vegetables.
Second largest vegetable harvest since 2012
According to the data, a total of 5,830 farms in Germany harvested 4.2 million tons of vegetables last year. This was an increase of 6.1% compared to 2023 and the second-highest level since 2012. Only in 2021 were more vegetables harvested in Germany, at 4.3 million tons.
According to the Federal Office, the area under cultivation increased by 3.2 percent to 126,800 hectares. The largest open-air areas for vegetable cultivation are in North Rhine-Westphalia (28,200 hectares), Lower Saxony (24,400 hectares), Bavaria (16,500 hectares) and Rhineland-Palatinate (16,400 hectares). As in previous years, carrots were the vegetable with the largest harvest volume in Germany, with 850,600 tons grown outdoors./ben/DP/mis
