An update on Prognosfruit forecasts for Europe at the end of August confirmed that the overall EU apple crop will be down by 7% on 2014 at about 11.97m tonnes with pears also down by 3%; the total pear crop in 2015 will reach 2.34m tonnes. Very hot weather this summer in some countries and a lack of rainfall has playedhavoc with accurately forecasting the overall crop figures. The European crop will be about ten days later than last year.
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