date:Jun 29, 2016
, which equates to 50 million containers per year. Strawberry sales have generated 564 million pounds; this corresponds to 51 percent of the soft fruit market, which has a total value of 1.1 billion pounds. Soft fruit accounts for 21 percent of all fruit consumption, which is a higher share than that of apples and bananas. The segment has grown by 132 percent in the past decade.
Poor start Dutch open ground season after good greenhouse campaign
The wet weather has major implications for the pro