The Dutch Conference pear season is underway and, although the crop is a little smaller than last season, the fruit is still looking good.
Jan Timmermans, director of CG Timmermans & Zn, pictured, told freshinfo: “We have good fruit sizing and sugars but about 70 per cent of last year’s volumes, due to frost in the spring during flowering.
“We are supplying Conference pears into other parts of Asia but do not know the Chinese market yet. We have launched a new website for the variety in China.
“Although the UK is one of our biggest export clients, eastern countries are becoming more important too. The Dutch crop is getting bigger, so we need to look at supplying other countries.”
