Raspberry growers in Bosnia and Herzegovina predict difficult season

Raspberry growers in Bosnia and Herzegovina are making disappointing forecasts for the coming berry season. Among the key problems, incomplete payment for deliveries of the last harvest, as well as a large volume of frozen raspberries of the last season in warehouses, stands out. This is reported by Fruit-inform according to Freshplaza. “The situation is now extremely difficult. Perhaps the most difficult since the beginning of the history of growing raspberries in our area. The farmers of our region are in especially difficult circumstances - near Zhelezno-Pole, where raspberry production was born after the war. Most of the refrigerators, to my knowledge, were unable to export their existing products, as there were no export requests in the market. This led to the termination of cooperation with berry producers: the selling prices of products were not published, payments under contracts were not made, the terms of contracts and obligations in relation to producers that were ...