Blueberry growers fear cheap imports from Eastern Europe

The area of blueberries has decreased in recent years in both the Netherlands and Belgium. Figures from Statistics Netherlands show that blueberries were grown on 920 hectares in the Netherlands in 2020. Previously this was only 780 hectares. There is also less interest in growing blueberries in Belgium, reports the Belgian trade medium Vilt. According to Vilt, an important cause of the decrease in the area of blueberries is the cheap supply from Eastern Europe. The import of blueberries in the summer period from countries such as Bulgaria, Serbia and Poland has increased sharply in recent years. Retailers ...