The strawberry season in Ukraine is the most unprofitable in 12 years

Published 2024년 7월 2일

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Ukrainian berry growers are facing challenges due to the war and adverse weather conditions, leading to issues in strawberry harvesting and potential future crop damage from power outages. Despite these challenges, raspberry prices are high compared to last year but lower than the year before. The country is also struggling with transportation issues and pesticide contamination. The cherry crop has been resilient, but over half of the strawberry season has been a disaster, with losses reaching 75% due to frost and rain. However, blueberry prices are expected to stabilize and small farmers are trying out a new crop, elderberry.

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This year, not only the war, but also the weather added many problems to Ukrainian berry growers. In addition to the fact that the strawberry season was not particularly profitable, a prolonged lack of electricity could destroy the future harvest of berry crops, writes EastFruit. The President of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association Taras Bashtannik spoke about this in an interview for SEEDS. – This year, certain difficulties were predicted with the raspberry harvest. Were the forecasts justified? – This year it’s really a little worse with people in terms of collecting. But so far I have not yet received any signals that there is no one to pick raspberries in Ukraine. In neighboring Poland, as I heard, labor may be a big issue. The summer season is just beginning, but the bulk of raspberries in Ukraine come from autumn, and autumn is still far away. But it's still possible. There are raspberries this year and the harvest is good. As for prices, everything is relative. ...

Source: Eastfruit