Press release No. 053 of 15 February 2019
WIESBADEN – Blueberries were cultivated on an area of 3,040 hectares in Germany in 2018. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the area under cultivation rose by 66% since it had first been covered in 2012. In 2018, cultivated blueberries grew on roughly one third of the total area under cultivation with bush berries in Germany (just under 9,210 hectares). The largest share of the total area of bush berry cultivation was in Niedersachsen (roughly one quarter).
