‘Momentum growing’ in UK plum industry with bumper crop, says grower

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The UK plum industry has begun to pull out of a “decades-long decline” with a bumper crop reported this year, a grower has said.

Plum production in the UK hit its peak in 1987 with 28,900 tonnes being produced that year, according to Defra figures.