Monday, August 22, 2016

Apple Growers with light harvest forecast – Västerbotten Courier

A bumper crop looks to wait Swedish apple growers this year, reports the agricultural magazine ATL. The forecast from Äppelriket Österlen show an increase of up to 15 percent compared with last year, which was a good year with a gross harvest of 14 500 tonnes.

Although the weather has so far been the apple growers there are storm clouds , according to apple Kingdom.

– We have already started picking the earliest apple varieties that Transparente Blanche but now requires further heat to the dominant varieties Aroma and Ingrid Marie to grow the last few millimeters. Do we get a severe hailstorm over Skåne is also the risk of injury large, says Henry Battle, CEO of Apple Kingdom, to ATL.

Elsewhere in the country is also expected a very good apple harvest, according to the newspaper.

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