BREEDING AND DISTRIBUTION OF NEW FRUIT VARIETIES IN GERMANY
Since the beginning of the early 2000s, an increasing number of new pome fruit varieties that are interesting for marketing are only offered in connection with cultivation and marketing licenses. To avoid a fragmentation of the offer in Germany, the producer organizations did not face the new requirements individually, but as a representative GmbH for variety issues in Germany. The DOSK was founded in 2003, following the current development in fruit cultivation.