2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Statistics show that this year Bulgarians eat 30 percent more expensive cherries because of the heavy rains. Due to the torrents, honey is also expected to rise in price.
The earliest varieties of cherries have already been damaged, as heavy rains and hail destroyed thousands of acres of orchards.
Many of the first cherries had to be processed before they reached the market, with a purchase price of between 50 and 60 stotinki per kilogram.
This year the prices of cherries are 30% higher than last year. The data of the State Commission for Commodity Exchanges and Markets show that the kilogram of wholesale fruit was BGN 1.80, and this year the price has jumped to BGN 2.36.
In large retail chains, quality cherries are offered for BGN 3 per kilogram, and the price of large cherries reaches up to BGN 5 per kilogram.
Cheaper fruits can be found in the series on the market, as the price per kilogram reaches 2 levs, but most of the offered cherries are cracked.
Heavy rainfall and unusually cool weather this spring could also affect the price of honey.
The chairman of the Regional Beekeeping Organization in Varna - Yanko Yankov, said that the meteorological anomalies did not create conditions for flowering crops, and from there it led to a lack of nectar for bees.
According to the chairman, this will require an increase in honey prices this year. He also reminded that in recent years the number of bee families in the country has decreased by about 50%.
There are no bee diseases this year. The problem with the poisoning of the bee families in connection with the started spraying of the orchards and the agricultural production remains.
This year's results show that there are almost no conditions for honey and rapeseed production, with most beekeepers hoping for linden and sunflower yields.
This year, almost no honey yields have been obtained from the first grazing of bees, which has worried many workers in the industry.
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