People in Saxony can currently look forward to cherries from the region—the season has begun. “We’re expecting an average harvest,” said Carmen Stefanie Kaps, managing director of the Fruit Growers’ Association of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. She anticipates a yield of about 400 metric tons of sweet cherries and 1,300 metric tons of sour cherries.
In Saxony, sweet cherries are grown on 100 hectares and sour cherries on about 230 hectares. Along with strawberries, cherries are among the most popular harbingers of summer. It doesn’t matter whether they’re fresh from the tree, eaten as a snack, used in cakes, or preserved, as Kaps explained.
