Press release No. 042 of 11 February 2016
WIESBADEN – In Germany approximately 37,500 tonnes of bush berries were harvested in 2015, the area under cultivation was 8,100 hectares. Compared with a year earlier, both the quantity harvested and the cultivated area rose by 5%. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that with yields of 12,000 tonnes produced outdoors on 2,500 hectares of land, cultivated blueberries were the most harvested kind of bush berry in 2015. Next were black currants (7,200 tonnes produced on 1,600 hectares), 6,700 tonnes of red and white currants (800 hectares) and 3,900 tonnes of raspberries (900 hectares).
Farmers in Niedersachsen harvested the largest quantity of bush berries (just under 10,800 tonnes), followed by Baden-Württemberg (9,000 tonnes), Nordrhein-Westfalen (5,100 tonnes) and Bayern (5,000 tonnes). This means that 80% of the entire bush berry yields were produced in those four Länder.