Germany: Better apple sales
Royal Gala fetches very good prices and surcharges can even be asked on it. Elstar is also popular among consumers at the moment. The further market development of the Jonagold/Jonagored remains doubtful. There are larger quantities of it available at the moment, which are often weak in colour. But the weak continuity in the export of these varieties towards the East also makes it a strain. The months/weeks in which this variety is usually sold most still have to come, in which there will be more clarity about whether the sales of the variety group have been successful. The fact remains that Russia only imported 39,000 tonnes of apples from the EU-15 countries until the end of December. They traditionally imported a lot of Jonagold/Jonagored variety apples.