Fruit and vegetable from Germany

In Germany the average harvest is between 1.3 and 1.5 million tons fruit. Thereof the main crop are apples with approx. 900,000 to 1.1 million tons and a share of approximately 75% of the entire fruit harvest. Beside the main cultivation of the Jona group new apple varieties as ' Braeburn' , ' Gala' , ' Elstar' , ' Pinova' , ' Topaz' are cultivated. Further important fruit are strawberries, cherries, plums, pears as well as red and black currents, raspberries and blueberries. Scarcely two thirds of the pome fruit and berries are consumed as fresh produce, a good third is used as processed fruit. In Germany approximately 10,500 horticulture farms produce vegetables. On a surface of scarcely 115000 ha approx. 3.3 million tons of vegetables are produced. The supply of vegetable covers different kinds of cabbage, root and tuber vegetables, leaf and fruit vegetables, herbs and salads uncovered or under glass depending upon season. Beyond that asparagus, fresh mushrooms as well as spice and medical plants are cultivated.

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