"Monitoring this fruit is, and will remain, crucial. Changing over in time can prevent problems. Today's refrigeration technology gives us an edge, but the fruit never comes out as good as it goes in," continues Mark. "Furthermore, there are always traders / growers with no set sales who are gambling on the global price in these last few months. Most of the players who have good, permanent points of sale in the last months of the season have already been safe for a while. Free trade can be very lucrative at this time. However, the times that this has happened are fewer than the times when you had to scramble to sell your product at a fair price."
"The good weather and the large volumes of stone fruits are not helping our cause. However, there are, fortunately, enough countries where people eat our fruit, regardless of the weather or substitutes. We had extremely early blossoms this season, but the cold weather that followed, negated this advantage. This also means the season, providing the quality lasts, with be longer than expected. Due to the severe frost we experienced, our harvest will be smaller next year - but we expect good quality pear," Marks concludes.
For more information:
Mark Vernooij
Urfruit
Tel: +31 (0) 57 547 24 73
m.vernooij@urfruit.nl
www.urfruit.nl