Hops in Britain and West Germany

Abstract

The hop industry in West Germany has increased the area under cultivation from 8,500 hectares in 1962 to 20,000 hectares in 1975, whilst in Britain during the same period hop growing has contracted from 8,000 to 6,000 hectares despite larger and hence more economic farms, and the support of very successful hop research departments. This account of hop growing and marketing in the two countries examines ways in which the decline in hop acreage in Britain may be arrested.