date:Dec 25, 2013
a. Together these vegetables covered 17% (1,422 acres) of the total organic vegetable acreage. Also organic legumes such as peas and beans, which are sold for frozen food, covered an above average proportion of the total area, 15%.
Root vegetables such as carrot, onion and beetroot remain the most important group within the organic vegetables range with a total growing area of more than 3,000 acres, 29% of the organic farmland in Germany.