Cherry Times #May2023

Cherry Times has been launched in May 2023, together with the start of the Northern Hemisphere cherry season.

Have a look at our most recent articles:

Macfrut 2023 workshop on varietal innovation

• New varieties from JKI in addition to Regina and Areko
• Leader in apricot breeding, COT International invests on cherries
• Hungarian cherry breeding project celebrates 70 years of success
• From Kordia to Feciita, Irena and Tamara: the quality cherries from WSUO
• The super millionaire fruits of the Alma Mater
• The new IVU varieties

Rootstocks

• Resilience key factor for cherry rootstocks
• Widening the choice of cherry rootstocks: the Krimsk? series
• CDB's proposals for new cherry tree plantings: GiSelA? rootstocks

Varieties

• Salvi Vivai enlarges its offer with 5 new cherry varieties
• CHEERY? the new variety line from IFG
• The Sweet cherries: a success story

Consumers and markets

• Cherries rank on top of European consumers' preferences
• Global cherry export rocketed from 2 to USD 5 billions in 10 years
• Germany is the third largest importer of cherries

Cherry Times is a project of Stefano Lugli (SL Fruit Service) and Thomas Drahorad (NCX Drahorad) and is supported by an international technical scientific committee.