What’s wrong with the season of Uzbekistan’s cherry?

At the end of May 2024, EastFruit wrote about the late start of harvesting stone fruits in Central Asian countries. The spring of 2024 turned out to be unusually cool and rainy, which led to delays in the ripening of many fruits, including cherries, and also negatively affected its quality parameters, EastFruit experts note. However, the consequences of weather anomalies did not end there - the current cherry season in the Fergana Valley (the main cherry production region in Uzbekistan) will be very short, also due to the unusually early start of harvesting late varieties of cherries. “In the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan this season, the harvest of early cherry varieties began about two weeks later than usual. It would seem that weather conditions should not have had much impact on late cherry varieties; at least, significant shifts in the start date of harvesting were not expected. However, contrary to expectations, the harvest of late cherry varieties began much earlier than ...