Beginning of the blackberry season in Moldova, the harvest is small, and the starting prices are much higher than last year's level

This week, the first small (from a few hundred kilograms to a ton daily) offers of Arapaho early grade blackberries will appear on the city markets of Moldova. The small-scale wholesale offer price of the berries of the first harvest is 80 lei/kg ($4.19/kg), i.e. about 40% above the starting level in 2022, according to EastFruit. Farmers-suppliers of blackberries claim that the first batches of blackberries will be sold without a trace in boutiques-kiosks in Chisinau and according to preliminary targeted orders of consumers in social networks (the price is the same, the minimum lot is 3 kg). Because "consumers are waiting for the very first berry." At the same time, blackberry producers fear that “in the future, price dynamics may develop in the same way as in the raspberry segment.” Recall that the retail price for raspberries of the first harvest in the city markets of Moldova reached 140-150 lei / kg ($ 7.85-8.41 / kg), and the wholesale price for this berry “at the edge of the ...