Norway: Lowest fruit crop since 2015

It shows new figures from Statistics Norway. A total of 13,900 tonnes of fruit were harvested last year. This means a fall in production of as much as 29 percent from 2019. The fruit crops are thus the lowest since 2015. It should be said that horticultural crops increased steadily in the period 2015-2019. Looking at the development in the individual productions, the crop situation was worst for plums. The production ended at a total of 700 tonnes last year, which is about a third of the amount in recent years, the overview shows. For apples, the decline was 23 percent from 2019. For pears, cherries and cherries, the crops were more in line with normal, but these productions are completely marginal in Norwegian fruit production. They make up 8 percent in total. But 2020 was also a bad year for the berry producers. In total, just under 10,000 tonnes of berries were harvested in 2020. That is 20 per cent less than in 2019. The major driver in Norwegian berry production, ...