date:Mar 25, 2019
ds: Quality problems taking toll on pear market
The situation in the Dutch pear market is marked by quality issues. Prices for the higher quality fruit are still going up, but there are also plenty of lower quality batches available. Unlike apples, whose sales are mostly domestic-oriented, pears need to be exported, but the demand from Eastern Europe in particular is disappointing. Meanwhile, the first Williams and D'Anjou pears from Argentina have arrived and the Packhams and Abate Fetel pears