Harvest
Significantly more cherries from German cultivation
The weather played along this year: domestic fruit growers expect a rich harvest. The long -term cut is not exceeded in one case.
The mild spring in 2025 is expected to have one of the best cherry harvests in 2025. With 49,900 tons of sweeteners and sour cherries, the harvest of an estimate of June 10 will be significantly higher than in the previous year and the ten-year cut, as the Federal Statistical Office calculates.
According to this, fruit growing companies expect 41 percent more cherries than last year (35,400 tons) and 10.4 percent more than on average from 2015 to 2024 (45,200 tons). The reason for the higher crop expectations are milder weather conditions at flowering, such as the absence of late frosts and strong rainfall. In 2024, late frosts in the heyday had grown the harvest in some growing regions.
Especially sweet cherries
On 5,700 hectares for sweet cherries nationwide, 38,200 tons of the sweet fruits are expected to be picked this year and almost 37 percent more than 2024. The most important growing regions are Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony and Rhineland-Palatinate.
According to the estimate, the yield at Sauerkirschen will also significantly exceed the previous year’s value at around 11,700 tons (plus 56.6 percent), but below the tenth average. Two thirds of the entire 1,500 hectare area for sour cherries in Germany are in three federal states: Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony and Baden-Württemberg.
dpa
Source: Stern
