Where once there were fields and meadows, there are now industrial estates or housing estates: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania lost 7,400 hectares of agricultural land in the past decade.
This corresponds to about 26 companies of average size, as can be seen from reports from the Statistical Office in Schwerin.
The utilized agricultural area decreased according to the information from Tuesday in the years 2010 to 2020 from 1.
Schwerin - 350,900 hectares on 1,343,500 hectares.
Most of the space was therefore taken up last year by the cultivation of grain with 551,200 hectares.
Oil crops - especially rapeseed - grew on 180,800 hectares.
Around 270,000 hectares were permanent grassland.
dpa