In the last year, 9,000 tonnes of blueberries were harvested in Germany. This makes these the most harvested bush berries in this country. After them came the blackberries with a harvest of almost 4,500 tonnes, and raspberries with a harvest of almost 3,800 tonnes. In the whole of Germany almost 28,000 tonnes of bush berries were harvested in 2012.![arandanos portalfruticola 3](http://www.internationalblueberry.org/assets/uploads/2013/03/arandanos-portalfruticola-3.jpg)
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Most bush berries were harvested in Lower Saxony (8,400 tonnes), Baden-Württemberg (7,900 tonnes) and Nordrhein-Westfalen (3,500 tonnes). The largest harvest amount of blueberries was in Lower Saxony with almost 6,700 tonnes.
In Germany around 1,200 agricultural companies grow bush berries on a total surface of 6,800 hectares. Most companies are located in Baden-Wúrttemberg (456 companies), followed by Lower Saxony (218 companies), Nordrhein-Westfalen (136 companies) and Bavaria (128 companies). Around 9% of the German bush berry harvest comes from companies that grow completely organically.
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