Sandhatt/Bonn (dpa -Afx) – With the sunny spring weather, the asparagus harvest is slowly starting in Germany. With the slowly increasing harvest quantities, consumer prices for German asparagus should also decrease in the next few weeks. “If you take the Hamburg wholesale market, the prices are already falling,” said Thorsten Flick from the Lower Saxony Association of Asparagus and Berries. He assumes that there will be no price increase this year.
However, there are no numbers yet. The harvest quantities are currently still too low, said Markt analyst Claudio Gläßer from the Agrarmarkt Information Society (AMI) in Bonn. “The season is slowly starting due to the cool night temperatures, but with a view to Easter there will be enough asparagus,” he said. However, the first asparagus is already stung in all regions.
According to the Federal Statistical Office, asparagus was the vegetables with the largest acreage in Germany last year: with 19,800 hectares it was in front of the onions (17,700 hectares). The biggest harvest was run in Lower Saxony. However, the acreage and the harvest in the past year was more low than ever since in 2013: 108,000 asparagus were engraved in Germany in 2024, which was 3 percent less than in the previous year./EKS/DP/ZB