With 28,700 hectares, North Rhine-Westphalia has the largest vegetable cultivation area in Germany.
This corresponds roughly to the area of the city of Dortmund. According to Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen, the state's statistical office, North Rhine-Westphalia had the largest area of open-field vegetable cultivation in Germany in 2022 (Germany: 125,200 ha).
On 4,300 ha, 268,400 t of carrots were harvested in NRW last year. Carrots were thus the
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