VIENNA, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Austria has seen a massive 67-percent decline in its commercial fruit harvest this year largely due to spring frost, Statistics Austria reported on Friday.
Only 84,200 tonnes of fruit was harvested, representing about one-third of the ten-year average.
The report stated almost all fruit varieties were effected, and that farms in the state of Styria had been particularly hard-hit.
In addition, the fruit that was harvested showed quality deficiencies such as shape deformations, frost rings, and inner-rot in pip fruit.
By variety pip fruit was worst-effected, the harvest coming in 71 percent lower than in 2015. This was followed by stone fruit that saw a 50 percent drop.
