Poland's 2013 apple crop is likely to be down 20-30 per cent on last year's 3.7 million tonnes, partly due to the weather, partly to trees being "exhausted", according to Jan Nowakowski, a representative of fresh-produce trading company Genesis Fresh.
But Europe's largest apple producer is developing new markets in Africa and the Middle East, where it gained a foothold last year after poor harvests in western Europe.
Meanwhile, Portugal will see its apple harvest rise 25 per cent to 273,000 tonnes this year, while pears are expected to be up 75 per cent.
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