‘Price for apples and pears halved’ – NU.nl

'Price for apples and pears halved' – NU.nl

Reports that the NIS Saturday based on the GroentenFruit House.

According to the GroentenFruit House, the problem is that cheaper Polish apples and pears in the Dutch market flooding. Thanks to the Russian boycott that fruit is no longer the Russian border, but it comes on the European market.

The fruit is cheaper, because with a lower cost has been grown. In total, the eight hundred thousand tons of apples and pears. The Netherlands exports to Russia itself does not.

The cultivation of a kilo of apples or pears in the Netherlands costs about forty cents. This price growers are even if there is much supply and that is taken into account. A fruit grower who has a million pounds of apples and pears produces a drop of ten to fifteen cents a loss that can be

up to one hundred fifty thousand euro.

The past year was 314 million pounds and 327 million pounds of apples pears harvested According to figures from the Central Statistical Office. In total last year, eleven percent more apples grown than a year earlier. The pear harvest increased by 64 percent.

Case

The European Commission speaks Monday about a possible aid for gardeners who by the Russian boycott of pocket. Dutch growers were able to file a claim.

A first order of the commission, in which 125 million was required, not meet these standards. Some States had extremely high claims, which are many times higher than the normal export to Russia. A new measure should be avoided.