White and red cabbage represent 60% of vegetable harvest
North Rhine-Westphalian outdoor vegetables were grown last year to 26,850 hectares. In terms of arable land, the asparagus with 3,723 hectares was still the preeminent vegetable type in North Rhine-Westphalia. The proportion of this noble vegetable within the total acreage for outdoor vegetables last year was 13.9 percent. In 2017, a total of 19,522 tonnes of asparagus were harvested. Last year, the largest acreages were found in the administrative districts of Münster (1,297 hectares), Düsseldorf (953 hectares) and Detmold (912 hectares).
A decisive factor in the large harvest volumes was an adjustment of the reporting group, which resulted in 103 reporting agents more being included in the survey than in 2016. The total number of companies surveyed in 2017 was 1,229.
Source: Statistik NRW