Russia: There will be tangerines for the New Year

Published 2024년 12월 11일

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Abkhazia is experiencing its best tangerine harvest season, with up to 35-40 thousand tons collected, primarily from private farms. The bulk of the harvest is sold before the New Year holidays, but collection will continue until February. Up to a thousand tons of tangerines are imported to Russia daily, and other agricultural products such as feijoa, nuts, persimmons, lemons, and oranges are also imported. The article also highlights the process of tangerine picking and the unique taste variations. Despite the large volume of imports, tangerines are stored for up to ten days and undergo quarantine control to ensure quality and safety.

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The author of this article visited several plantations here, including even the most remote one, three kilometers from the border with Georgia, and learned about the situation related to the harvesting and delivery of the main New Year's fruit. As it turned out, now is the best time to pick tangerines, but even if there are few of them in Sochi, then in neighboring Abkhazia there is a gold mine. It took me a while to find a plot of land in the village of Eshera in the Sukhumi region, with the owner of which we agreed to meet - tangerine orchards are located in almost every yard. At the height of the season, any of the guests can pick them themselves for 40 rubles per kilogram, and buy the collected ones for 50. For comparison: in Sochi, tangerines are sold for 150-200 rubles. - This year the harvest was more than five tons from each of our two plots. You need to pick tangerines carefully. You can't pick the fruit from the tree. Usually, they use pruning shears. Otherwise, the ...

Source: RG