2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The purchase of grapes produced in the country has already begun. However, its price is higher than last year, and the quantity is scarce due to rain damage.
The wineries expect to process 200,000 tonnes of grapes this year to produce 140 million liters of wine. Last year the harvest was much better and the wineries in the country were filled with 175 million liters of wine.
In the first six months, our country exported 22.8 million liters of wine, and for the same period last year, 70 million liters were exported. This year, exports to the Russian market also fell.
The rainy summer has almost doubled the purchase price of grapes this season. The red varieties in Petrich and Sandanski are sold for between BGN 1.20 and 1.40 per kilogram, and the white ones are 40 stotinki more expensive than last year.
The humidity and the lack of sun have affected the Bulgarian grapes and its quantity this year is much more scarce. Many growers underestimated the protection of their crops and their crops were destroyed by manna and other grape diseases.
Some producers from Blagoevgrad have lost up to 80% of their harvest this year.
Nikolay Boshkilov, who has his own vineyards in the Sandanski village of Laskarevo, says he sprayed the plantations four times last year, and this year he had to spray twice as much.
According to him, this year's grapes will be bought mainly by individuals and households, and large wine producers will be supplied with imports from Greece and Macedonia.
Despite the small quantity, the producers guarantee the quality of the grapes and add that they have a high sugar content.
The vine growers from the Sandanski village of Vranya decided to protest and exchange the harvest for potatoes and beans, because the wineries wanted to buy their grapes for nothing.
Local producers say that at such purchase prices they cannot cover their losses, which is why they are ready to exchange their grapes for potatoes and beans from Samokov and Yakoruda.
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