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Hanover (dpa / lni) - The black currant - also called cassis or ahlberry - is slowly disappearing from the bushberry cultivation in Lower Saxony.
Since 2012, the harvest volume has fallen by around half, as the Lower Saxony State Statistics Office announced on Friday.
In 2020, 73.4 tons of black currants were harvested, around a quarter more than in 2019. But that is less than half of the 146.9 tons in 2012. The area under cultivation fell from 70 to 40 hectares in the period.
The undisputed number one in 2020 was the blueberry, which, according to the information, grew on around 82 percent of the area under cultivation for bush berries in Lower Saxony and made up three quarters of the harvest of all bush berries.
It is likely to defend its top position among the bushberries in Lower Saxony for the foreseeable future, the authority forecast.
The cultivation area for blueberries increased in 2020 as well.
Due to its earthy taste, blackcurrants are rarely eaten fresh, but are mainly used for processing as juice, liqueur or fruit spread - although this is becoming increasingly rare, despite their high vitamin C and anthocyanin content.
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