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Hamburg: number of vegetable cultivation companies continues to decline
In total 105 companies grew on 497 hectares in 2014 in the German Hamburg. Although the cultivation area grew by +2.0% compared to 2013, the number of cultivation companies decreased by five percent, according to the Bureau for Statistics for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. The decrease in the number of cultivation companies therefore continued in 2014.
90 companies grew 10,970 tonnes of vegetable in the open ground on 443 hectares in total. The companies mainly concentrated on the cultivation of fresh vegetables: 61% of the open ground area was used for lettuce cultivation. This meant that the size of this area compared to the previous year remained mostly constant. Besides this, 81 companies grew covered vegetables (including greenhouses) on 46 hectares. Here there was also mostly lettuce (23 hectares). Other important vegetables for covered cultivation were tomatoes with eight hectares and cucumbers with seven hectares.
