Feijoa season in Georgia starts with high prices

Feijoa harvesting is just beginning in the western regions of Georgia: Adjara, Samegrelo and Guria. Farmers are reporting higher prices and lower yields this season. They explained to EastFruit that the lower yield is due to the fall of flowers during the flowering season. They doubt it could have been caused by illness. According to Zviad Bobokashvili, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, head of the fruit crops department of the Georgian Agricultural Research Center, the problem of falling flowers was most likely caused by meteorological factors, not disease, but he cannot rule out disease in the case of specific farmers. See also: Export of apples from Georgia: indicators are high, but producers are not entirely satisfied “During the feijoa bloom in June, the weather was unstable in western Georgia. The amplitude between high and low temperatures was significant, which negatively affected the feijoa flowers. We had the same problem four years ago. According to my observations, this ...