Cherry production.

Abstract

Abstract It is said to be difficult to obtain accurate cherry production data. In many cases, production for both cherry species, sweet (Prunus avium) and sour (Prunus cerasus), are published together under one 'cherry' category. This form of data presentation is more frequent in countries where sour cherry production is negligible, and therefore the production figures can be assumed to represent sweet cherry. In addition, the hectares of cherry production and yields reported are not uniform between countries. There is variation in whether the orchard surface and yields reported include only commercial or commercial plus backyard garden production, bearing or both bearing and non-bearing orchards, and exported production. Therefore, accurate comparisons are difficult to obtain, especially the average yield/ha data when calculated by total yield of the country divided by total orchard surface. This chapter presents the global sweet and sour cherry production.