Ukraine is the leader in the production of currants

Currant is a fairly common and familiar garden plant for Ukrainians. Ukraine is one of the countries that are the largest producers of currants, and the yield of currants is one of the best in the world, but we have little area under this berry. This was reported by SEEDS, writes agronews.ua. “Currants are grown in 22 countries around the world, 16 of them in Europe. More than 95% of world berry production comes from European countries. The largest producers of currants in the world are Russia, Poland and Ukraine, ”said Valentyn Rozhko, Executive Director of Agro-Ukraine LLC, during a webinar organized by the USAID Agricultural and Rural Development Program - AGRO. Annual production of currants in the world according to FAO is 650-700 thousand tons. The main part of them falls on the berries of black currants. According to Rozhko, it is difficult to count all currant producers in Ukraine - many of them are grown by small farms that do not fall into the statistics. “What is ...