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The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food has approved 308 hectares of new vineyards for 2017. The winegrowers had applied for about 705 hectares. Among them are vineyards in Schleswig-Holstein. Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and North Rhine-Westphalia.

The ministry had received a total of 2,354 applications from winegrowers since January. 73 per cent of them came from Rhineland-Palatinate, 19 per cent from Baden-Württemberg and five per cent from Bavaria. The most important criterion for approval was the steepness of the land applied for. Sites with over 30 percent slope had priority for the ministry, followed by sites with 15 to 30 percent slope.

Areas were also approved in federal states without cultivation areas: Six hectares in Lower Saxony, 4.2 hectares in Schleswig-Holstein, 3.4 hectares in Brandenburg, 2.4 hectares in North Rhine-Westphalia and one hectare in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

(uka / Photo: German Wine Institute)

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