Report Highlights:

Cultivated and bearing area of both apples and pears continues on a downward trend in Canada. Bearing area for apples is forecast at 16,149 hectares in 2009/10. Canada’s pear bearing area is expected to drop by nearly 28 percent from 1,095 hectares to791 hectares in 2009/10.

The drop in cultivated area for pears is largely due to CanGro’s January 2008 announcement that it would close its St. Davids, Ontario canning facility – the last fruit canner in the province and the only Canadian cannery east of the Rockies.

Overall better weather conditions is forecast to boost 2009/10 apple production to 410,000 MT which imports will continue to represent about 40 percent of total consumption and total about 170,000 MT. In 2009/10 pear production is forecast at 7,600 MT with the 70,000 MT of imports providing 90 percent of total fresh consumption.

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