Total Area: 357,022 sq km
Total Land Area: 348,672 sq km Total Water Area: 8,350 Climate: temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm wind off the mountains Terrain: lowlands in the North, highlands in Central Germany, and the Bavarian Alps in the South Arable land use: 33.25% Permanent crop land use: 0.56% Irrigated Land: 5,157 sq km Total Renewable Water Sources: 154 cu km Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 32.3 cu km per year Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 391.4 cu m per person per year Natural Hazards: flooding Current Environmental Issues: emissions from coal-burning utilities and industries contribute to air pollution; acid rain, resulting from sulfur dioxide emissions, is damaging forests; pollution in the Baltic Sea from raw sewage and industrial effluents from rivers in eastern Germany; hazardous waste disposal; government established a mechanism for ending the use of nuclear power over the next 15 years; government working to meet EU commitment to identify nature preservation areas in line with the EU's Flora, Fauna, and Habitat directive Total Labor Force: 43.92 million Percent of Labor in agriculture: 1.6% Agriculture products: Potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beets, fruit, cabbages, cattle, pigs, and poultry. A boy holding a cabbage in the Dithmarschen of Germany. (click for source)
Wheat harvester in Germany. (click for source)
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Hops being Grown near Mainburg, Germany. (click for source)
Rye growing in Bavaria, Germany. (click for source)
German agriculture minister, Ilse Aigner, with cattle. (click for source)
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