The World of Apples

Apples of Czechia

4 varieties in the atlas came from Czechia. The oldest is Rubin, dated 1960.

Map of where the apple varieties in the atlas came from A map of the world on the Equal Earth projection, with a dot for each variety at its place of origin.

Harvest

Czechia grew 37,490 tonnes of apples in 2024, 0.04% of the world's harvest; it ranked 64th among the world's producers.1

1993 2024
The figures
YearTonnes
2024 37,490
2023 101,020
2022 131,350
2021 114,960
2020 115,590
2019 99,500
2018 151,530
2017 105,280
2016 124,997
2015 155,361
2014 128,292
2013 121,803
2012 118,709
2011 84,594
2010 99,801
2009 141,996
2008 154,063
2007 115,814
2006 136,385
2005 134,094
2004 146,894
2003 140,651
2002 165,974
2001 221,164
2000 339,431
1999 264,092
1998 283,148
1997 291,007
1996 251,436
1995 225,534
1994 244,098
1993 308,116

Varieties from Czechia, oldest first

  • Photograph of Šampion apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Šampion

    Raised privately by Otto Louda at Střížovice from a 1960 cross; third in Poland's apple orchards in 2017

    Czechia, 1960

  • Topaz

    A scab-resistant Czech apple from Rubín × Vanda; in 2026 second only to Gala among organic apples in Europe

    Czechia, after 1984

  • UEB 32642

    A scab-resistant cross of Golden Delicious and Topaz, selected in Czechia in 1999; sold under the trade mark Opal

    Czechia, 1999

And 1 more in the catalogue, A to Z

Sources

  1. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Updated 31 December 2025. Supports: each country's apple harvest by year (item 515, apples, in tonnes, 1961 to 2024), the shares of the world's harvest and the ranks worked out from them, and which figures FAOSTAT estimated or imputed.