2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The harvest of apples is twice lower this year, farmers from Plovdiv reported to BNT. As a reason for the poor yield, the producers point out the abundant harvest from last year.
When the harvest of one season is rich, the next year the trees always give less fruit, says the farmer Krassimir Kunchev, who grows 100 decares of apples in the Plovdiv region.
This year, however, Bulgarian apples are of excellent quality and most of them are intended for direct consumption. The early varieties of the fruit have already been harvested, and the picking of the later varieties will be completed in a few weeks.
Nearly 80% of the apple production in our country will go for direct consumption, and the remaining 20% are intended for processing.
The biggest problem for the native fruit growers is not the lower yield, but the Russian embargo, which floods our markets with field apples and thus collapses the price of the Bulgarian fruit.
In Poland, they pick their apple production a month later from Bulgarian farmers, but as soon as they appear on the market, they are bought much faster than domestic production.
The main reason for this trend is the price. Bulgarian apples are sold for BGN 1 per kilogram wholesale, while their Polish competitors are offered for no more than BGN 0.60 per kilogram wholesale.
Bulgarians consume an average of 120,000 tons of apples a year. 90,000 tons of them are imported.
Native apples can be bought until the New Year. Then the apples we can buy from the market are imported from Greece, Italy and Poland.
Earlier this year, 70% of imported apples were found to contain pesticides. The test results showed that the chemicals are widely used in apple production in Europe.
The most dangerous were the Italian apples, followed by the Belgian and French ones.
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