Asparagus producers cannot satisfy domestic market

It is reported by Tridge. According to data, about 46% of Ukrainian asparagus is exported to Singapore. However, as in the case of Guyana, the import of asparagus from Ukraine here is less than 1%. “Today, export is out of the question. This is due to the fact that Ukraine still imports a large amount of asparagus. Although annually the area under it is growing quite rapidly. If in 2014 the whole country had only 5 ha of asparagus, today only one of my acquaintances has about 100 ha. And even so, Ukrainian farmers still have not been able to saturate the domestic market, ”said Vitaliy Shakalo, head of the Saffron Lyubimovsky cultural complex. NB: The secret to the popularity of asparagus, or how much is the trend for healthy food? According to the State Statistics Service, in Ukraine in 2019, asparagus production amounted to 13.1 thousand centners. Of these, 11.4 thousand centners are agricultural enterprises. The average yield is about 37.7 c / ha. ...