2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The cherry outlets are already shutting down this season as the fruit is almost sold out. The cherries from both the Kyustendil and Stara Zagora harvests have been sold out.
However, producers say that due to heavy rains, this year's cherry harvest is smaller and of lower quality. Farmers explained that the amount of red fruit this year is less than last year.
According to them, the rains this year have ruined over 60% of the harvest, as the Regional Directorate for Food Safety in Kyustendil added that nearly 2,000 decares of cherries are waiting for a quality certificate.
About 80% of the Kyustendil production is of poor quality - the cherries are either cracked or rotten from the rains.
The director of the Institute of Agriculture in Kyustendil, Professor Dimitar Domozetov, said the purchase of cherries had stopped because no one wanted the poor quality fruit.
It is possible that the rest of the unsold harvest will be redirected to the production of brandy, but this will lead to large losses for producers, who this year paid 30-40 cents per kilogram of harvested cherries to pickers.
Early cherries this year were at a much lower price than before, and until the last kilogram of wholesale fruit did not exceed 90 cents.
At the beginning of June, cherries were offered for 60 stotinki per kilogram, and by the end of the campaign, farmers hoped that the price would rise significantly.
Producers add that in some places there are still unripe cherries, which will most likely be offered in early July at prices of about BGN 1.10 per kilogram.
However, other growers say they will not pick the new cherries to avoid new losses.
The cherries from Stara Zagora have already been bought, and this year the best harvest was offered by the massifs around the village of Malka Vereya.
At the same time, the large retail chains are trying to compete with the markets in the prices of cherries, offering a promotional kilogram for about BGN 1.30, while in the markets the kilogram of cherries is about BGN 2.
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