Apples of the World

Throughout the year, the Fruit Trade team, together with the exhibition partners, organise and run business tours to exchange experience, learn from successful practices and expand business relations.

On this page you can always find out about upcoming and past tours.

China is the world leader in apple production, with an annual harvest of about 41.0 million tonnes.
China exports about 800,000 tonnes of apples and imports about 100,000 tonnes.

“Secrets of the Chinese Apple Market”

As part of our business tour we will visit the largest state-owned enterprises in Shaanxi province, where the main apple production is concentrated. Our aim is to expand business relations and exchange experience, to learn about the Chinese market and to assess business opportunities.

As part of our business tour to Italy, together with Russian fruit producers we visited Griba and Salvi Vivai nurseries, saw apple orchards planted according to the Guyot system and experimental cherry plantations, visited research centres for the development of new apple varieties and tasted more than 12 new products. Our delegation was particularly impressed by the production facilities of the co-operatives:

The Melinda cooperative consolidates 4,000 farmers in Italy and produces more than 400,000 tonnes of apples in the Non and Sole Valleys. We visited the orchards and the co-operative's state-of-the-art sorting and packing facility, which consists of 70 water channels and systems for determining the internal and external quality of the fruit. Melinda also has a chain of shops where it sells fresh apples and its processed products. We appreciated the flavour of the entire range.

The Fruit Modena Group cooperative produces 70% of all Italy's pears and their 27,000 tonne pear storage facility is considered the largest and most modern. Of course, we familiarised ourselves with the peculiarities of pear storage as well as the pre-production stages. Did you know that a pear requires faster cooling than an apple? The co-operative loads the chamber by 30% at once and starts it up, this allows them to store, for example, pear of the Abbat variety until June. The temperature regime for pears is -1, -2 degrees.

“Evolution of apple growing, storage, grading and processing technologies. Marketing the apple business.”

At the end of our tour, we visited the international exhibition Interpoma, which is dedicated exclusively to the world of apples: from production to storage and marketing. Did you know that it was on the same scale as YugAgro? Yes, more than 490 exhibitors and 16,000 visitors from 70 countries.

The scale and technologies on display at Interpoma are impressive, and we aim to create Fruit Trade as a significant event in Russia for our fruit, berry and grape producers. Our concept is similar, however, we cover a wider range, while remaining a specialised solutions exhibition.