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Press release No. N 015 of 25 February 2021 Building permits between January and November 2020: 59% of dwellings in multi-family houses
Housing and construction are facing an increasing conflict between desired comfort, rising costs and ecological requirements. This is reflected by the data on new residential buildings, the majority of which have been multi-family houses recently. …
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Press release No. 049 of 3 February 2021 Well over a quarter of the total area of big cities in Germany is used for agricultural purposes
Fields and meadows are a familiar sight in many big cities in Germany. On average, well over a quarter (27.1%) of the total area of German cities with 100,000 inhabitants or more was used for agricultural purposes in 2019. There are, however, …
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Press release No. 047 of 14 February 2020 CORRECTION: Area under blueberry cultivation up by roughly two thirds since 2012
Blueberries were cultivated on an area of 3,160 hectares in Germany in 2019. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the area under cultivation rose by 70% since it had first been covered in 2012. In 2019, cultivated blueberries …
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Press release No. 498 of 19 December 2019 Sowing for 2020 harvest: again more winter rape, but less winter grain compared to 2019
In autumn 2019, agricultural holdings in Germany sowed winter rape on 952,700 hectares of land for the 2020 harvest. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the area sown with winter rape for the next harvest is 100,800 hectares larger …
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Press release No. 485 of 16 December 2019 New area atlas reveals large regional differences as to how areas are used as a resource
In Germany, there are large differences between municipalities as to how they use areas as a scarce resource. In Munich, the housing and transport area used per inhabitant was 159 square metres in 2017. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also …
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Press release No. 053 of 15 February 2019 Area under blueberry cultivation up by roughly two thirds since 2012
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 …