Gardeners in Ukraine refuse to grow apples in favor of stone fruits

Published Dec 2, 2022

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The article highlights the significant shift in Ukraine's agricultural landscape, with a large-scale uprooting of apple orchards to make way for stone fruit crops such as cherries, plums, apples, pears, apricot, and peach. This transition, led by farmers like Bogdan Maly of Rosy Bukovyna farm, is aimed at addressing the challenges of overproduction from the mass planting of apple trees in the 2010s and dealing with a labor shortage for cherry cultivation. However, this shift could potentially create problems for processors, as the reduced apple cultivation could result in a shortage of technical apples for processing.

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The massive uprooting of apple orchards in Ukraine and the switch to stone fruit crops could be a problem for processors. Bogdan Maly, the owner of the Rosy Bukovyna farm, expressed this opinion to the Ukrainian Horticulture magazine. He noted that he does not plan to develop the cultivation of sweet cherries. Since there are not enough workers, picking the berries is very expensive. More promising, he considers the cultivation of plums and apples, as well as pears. See also: New garden: seedlings from the Ukrainian nursery will be planted by the farm "Dary Volyn" on an area of 8.5 hectares “Also for the assortment, we will add some apricot and peach next year. Now many are uprooting apple orchards and want to go into peach and apricot on a large scale. In ...

Source: Eastfruit