"We are faced with 30 percent higher costs and a 20 percent drop in sales"
"We have exited a year in which wages have risen sharply. On top of that, there are social security contributions that have to be factored in as well, and on top of that, pome fruit is one of the few products where growers receive less money for the goods," says Philip Wißkirchen. He himself cultivates a 36-hectare orchard and is chairman of the Fachgruppe Obstbau Bonn Rhein-Sieg (Bonn
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