Not a great season for Serbian blueberry growers

Serbian blueberry growers regret a bad season with quality problems in open field cultivation due to rain in late spring and a cool summer. “In general, this has been a bad year for Serbian blueberry growers,” said Sladjana Vuković, manager of export company Srbovoće. Although Srbovoće did not bring fewer volumes to the market, rain in Serbia was responsible for a crop loss of around 15% in the country. "We have been able to maintain our yield, which was no less than expected. We have also been able to sell all our raspberries and blackberries from protected cultivation on the local market, which suggests to us that there is room for further expansion of the cultivation "We will certainly do that next year. But early rainfall has had an impact on our open field blueberry production. The yield was not lower, but the claims were around 20%." And so less was exported to the EU, but there was also no price increase, despite the smaller overall volumes. "We have not seen any price ...