German yield and area data for 11 crops from 1979 to 2021 at a harmonized spatial resolution of 397 districts.

ABSTRACT: Long time series with spatially highly resolved crop data are important for research projects on numerous future challenges in the environment and food sector. In this publication, we describe a dataset with crop-yield and area data for Germany from 1979 to 2021. The data are spatially resolved to 397 districts, which have an average size of 900 km², and include the crops spring barley, winter barley, grain maize, silage maize, oats, potatoes, winter rape, rye, sugarbeet, triticale and winter wheat. The crop-yield data cover, on average, about 9.5 million hectares per year and 80% of Germany's total arable land. The dataset contains 214,820 yield and area data points. These were obtained by collecting and digitizing crop data from multiple statistical sources and transforming th

SUBMITTER: Duden C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10798971 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature