(MENAFN) According to a report on Saturday from the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), rising energy costs are causing German farmers to shut down their greenhouse operations and stop growing crops like tomatoes, which thrive at high temperatures.

The energy crisis that has ravaged the European Union for the past year has reportedly led to vegetable farmers in Germany choosing lettuce over tomatoes and cucumbers since it requires less heat and is less profitable. One greenhouse keeper talked about how expensive it is to raise tomatoes.

Broadcaster was informed by Andreas Evers, “if we were to produce normally, the price per kilo for the tomatoes would be at least one euro higher. It would even be two euros for the cocktail tomatoes.”

Instead of waiting for assistance from the government, Evers and a few other producers of winter vegetables want to purchase a combined heat and power generator that runs on liquefied natural gas.

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