"Nowadays, skill and alertness are vital to achieve a good harvest"
In the Netherlands, it was all hands on deck in the spring to achieve a nice new pear harvest. "Skill and constant alertness are becoming increasingly important to guarantee a good crop," begins Wim Bijl of the pear farm Bijl's Fruit.
He says pear cultivation becomes more and more challenging every year. "The recent months' grim weather means we had to pull out all the stops. We
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