Belgian fruitgrowers working together with European partners to find promising fruit varieties

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Publication date	Thursday, 20 June, 2019
Keywords	fruit farming benchmarking decision support system (DSS) operational group thematic network apple pear

The Belgian research centre Proefcentrum Fruitteelt (pcfruit), has set up the Operational Group `Plant for a Customer’ to increase the success ratio of new varieties and reduce the risk for growers of planting an unsuccessful variety. They work together with the European thematic network EUFRUIT to review their results.

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