date:Oct 31, 2012
Encouraging healthy eating habits from an early age is the idea behind the EU-funded School Fruit Scheme, which, according to the latest report, benefited 8,146,290 children from 54,267 schools during 2010/11 (a rise of 70 % compared with 2009/10). In addition, there was increased demand from the previous year on fruit and vegetables to the order of 43,730 tonnes within the EU-24 Member States.
The annual expenditure of EUR 90 million is part of an ongoing campaign to tackle the EU-wide crisis