The warm and dry summer of 2018 caused a bad vegetable harvest in 2018, whilst fruit growers had an especially good year. The total amount of harvested vegetables decreased by 10 percent to 192,000 tonnes, figures from the Norwegian Central Bureau for Statistics show.
For vegetables from the open ground this was a difference of 22,000 tonnes compared to 2017. The summer cabbage in particular was hit hard. Only half as much was harvested compared to previous years. The amount of autumn and winter cabbage decreased by 20 percent. There was also fifteen percent less iceberg lettuce harvested and thirty percent less carrots.
Fruit growers generally profited from the heat. 81 percent of the total fruit harvest consisted of apples. Plums were worth eleven percent, sour cherries were five percent. 2018 was the worst year for cherries since 2014. In total 11,300 tonnes of berries were harvested in Norway, six percent less than in 2017. The raspberry harvest decreased by 400 tonnes. On the other hand, 100 tonnes more strawberries were harvested.
Source: www.nationen.no