A sharp warming after abnormal cold weather has collapsed prices for strawberries in Tajikistan

Published 2022년 4월 13일

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Wholesale prices for garden strawberries in Tajikistan have halved due to hot weather causing rapid ripening and the need to sell quickly before spoilage. This has led to a rapid price decline, with the season for processing likely to begin. In a first, Tajikistan may freeze its strawberries in 2022. The country is also focusing on vegetable and fruit cultivation in greenhouses with climate control, especially strawberries, with the first greenhouses already built.

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According to EastFruit analysts, until April 12, 2022, wholesale prices for garden strawberries in Tajikistan remained abnormally high - about $4 per kg. However, on April 12, prices halved in one day, and their further rapid decline is practically beyond doubt. “Today we have plus 35 degrees. After an abnormally cold spring, a hot summer immediately set in. Accordingly, the berry from the producers began to ripen very quickly. In addition, strawberries need to be sold quickly so that they do not spoil at high temperatures, so farmers are now forced to reduce prices, ”says Bakhtiyor Abduvokhidov, a consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). See also: How much will residents of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan pay for Russian aggression in Ukraine? And this means that in the near future the season for processing garden strawberries may begin in Tajikistan. In particular, in 2022, for the first time in history, Tajik strawberries with high palatability ...

Source: Eastfruit