Pome-Fruit Variety Testing

The Siting of Dessert Pome-Fruit Trees

Die Standortbestimmung für Tafelkernobst (=‘The Siting of Dessert Pome-Fruit Trees’) was first published jointly in December 2006 by the UG Testing and Assessment of Pome Fruit and the SOV/swisscofel Dessert Pome-Fruit Product Centre. It provides producers and extension services with an overview of the current state of affairs and trends in the Swiss pome-fruit range. The market opportunities and cultivation recommendations of individual varieties for retail production are dependent upon the definition of marketing windows that are reviewed by the fruit trade and integrated in a subsequent step.

Cider-Fruit Production

The «HERAKLES Plus» project aims to find fireblight- and Marssonina-resistant cider-fruit varieties which match today’s high expectations in terms of juice quality and technological characteristics.  At the same time, crop-protection strategies for controlling fireblight and Marssonina which are also suitable for cider-fruit production are tested. The objective is to maintain and revive cider-fruit production, both for extensively cultivated standard fruit trees and for more-intensively-cultivated cider-fruit orchards.

Variety Fact Sheets Apple

Variety Fact Sheets Pear

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