In Switzerland, a harvest of 152,600 tonnes of apples and 25,110 tonnes of pears from fruit plantations is expected this year, German website Proplanta.de reports. With these quantities, both apples and pears are seeing one of the largest harvests in recent years, comparable to the years 2007, 2009 and 2011.
Compared to the previous year, the apple acreage decreased by 82.5 hectares (-2.1%) to 3,910 hectares. The pear acreage on the other hand, increased by 8.3 hectares (+1.1%) to 777 hectares.