Truval pears gaining in notoriety

Despite predictions that EU pear volumes will be down around 13 per cent this campaign, Conference pear production was forecast at August’s Prognosfruit meeting to grow by 8 per cent. And as Storm Daniel battered large parts of southern Europe, conditions in Belgium remained okay.

“We had enough rain, a cold spring but with no frost or hail,” says Marc Evrard of Belgian

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