Feijoa may become one of Georgia's most lucrative export crops

Published 2020년 8월 6일

Tridge summary

Georgia has seen a significant increase in the cultivation of the exotic fruit, feijoa, particularly in the region of Samegrelo, with the area under cultivation growing from 160 hectares in the 1940s to 360-400 hectares today. The fruit, known for its iodine content and high yield of 15-20 tons per hectare, is widely consumed in Georgia and is becoming increasingly popular in other regions. The demand for feijoa in the country is rising, and so is its export, with Ukraine being the main market in 2019. The country is also exploring the potential of organic feijoa cultivation and considering the benefits of transportable varieties for increased export to the EU. As of now, New Zealand is the main producer and exporter of feijoa.
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Original content

In Georgia, areas under an exotic fruit for our region - feijoa - are rapidly growing. This crop has become especially popular among farmers in the Samegrelo region, where today almost all residents have at least a few feijoa bushes on their backyards. This fruit has come to the taste of local residents, and the demand for it in other regions of Georgia is also actively growing. By the way, feijoa is an excellent source of iodine, and there are not very many such plant products in the world. To understand why Georgia became interested in feijoa, we turned to Zviad Bobokashvili, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences of Georgia. Together with Katerina Poberezhnaya, an international consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), they prepared an interesting video about feijoa, in which you can find out all the details about this interesting, promising and useful crop, see how it grows and blooms in Georgia. EastFruit video about feijoa from Guria ...
Source: Eastfruit

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