date:Apr 07, 2014
The 2013 pear crop in the Netherlands exceeded the apple harvest for the first time in history, the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said on Thursday.
Last year, a total of 327 million kilograms of pears were harvested compared to 314 million kilograms of apples. The pear crop was slightly smaller than in the record year 2011, when 336 million kilograms of pears were harvested, but the area was smaller at that time.
The large pear harvest in 2013 was attributable to the sharp rise in t