Autumn season of apple processing in Moldova will last longer than expected

From the second week of October, queues of cars loaded with industrial apple began to form at the gates of Moldovan concentrate factories. By the end of this month, according to the managers of these enterprises, "the queues have become longer." Earlier, EastFruit reported that factory managers predicted "a relatively fast harvesting campaign and the receipt of another 100-120 thousand tons of apple for processing in October-November." And in total, the volume of processing of apples harvested in 2022 is a maximum of 200 thousand tons. However, the rise in the price of electricity (and the unclear prospects for its availability in more or less sufficient quantities among industrial consumers) are forcing horticultural farmers to refuse to store a significant share of their products for storage. The apple, bypassing the fruit storage, is sent for industrial processing. Taking into account this circumstance, managers of concentrate production factories adjust the deadlines for the ...