date:Nov 13, 2019
In marketing year 2019/20, Koreas pear production is projected to increase by 3.4 percent to 210,000 tons due to increased yield as a result of better weather conditions compared to the previous year. However, pear planted area is projected to continue a downward trend, decreasing about seven percent to 9,625 hectares from the previous marketing year.
This will be the Korean pear industrys first time ever below 10,000 hectares, with pears becoming increasingly less attractive to producers as co