Press release No. 074 of 3 March 2017
WIESBADEN – Asparagus ranked first again in 2016 among German vegetables in terms of area under cultivation (27,000 hectares; +5% on 2015). The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, in 2016, asparagus was grown on 21% of the German area under vegetable cultivation. Regional focuses of asparagus cultivation were Niedersachsen (5,930 hectares), Brandenburg (4,410 hectares), Nordrhein-Westfalen (4,310 hectares) and Bayern (3,740 hectares). The quantity of asparagus harvested in Germany was roughly 120,000 tonnes in 2016.