Bulgarian fruit growers are uprooting apples and pears due to import pressure

Native fruit growers are starting to uproot the gardens with seed species, such as apples and pears, and replace them with stone trees, Nikolay Kolev from the Union of Danube Fruit Growers told Agrozona. According to him, the reason for this is mainly the pressure received from imported fruits - apples and pears, and the lack of a market for Bulgarian products due to high costs. "Despite the frosts, which occurred in some places at the beginning of the year, the year was generally good for stone fruit. There was an average harvest, the prices were normal, there were no excesses on the market, while the seed fruit had an extremely high yield, the prices were extremely low, in some places even below cost. Most of our producers eradicate these crops and focus on other stone fruits - apricot, cherry, plum, fruit, which are more in demand in our region, because to sell an apple at cost for years is impossible, "said Kolev. "We did not manage to pick all the apples in my garden, because ...