Persimmon from Georgia will cost more this season

Farmers are talking about higher prices for persimmons this year compared to last season. This is due to several factors. Unfavorable climatic conditions, including drought in summer, cold and rainy autumn and hail in Kakheti in August, which significantly reduced the harvest in the region. Another factor is the rise in labor costs. On average, the daily salary of fruit pickers is now 20-30% higher than in the 2020 season. Solomon Gogelishvili would have harvested 30-40 tons of persimmons from a 2-hectare garden, but, unfortunately, his village Akura in Telavi municipality found itself in the epicenter of hail in August, which destroyed 100% of his harvest. Moreover, Gogelashvili told EastFruit that the hail damaged not only the fruits, but also the trees. Now he hopes that some of the trees will recover from the damage, but he will have to cut many of them. Vasil Germanishvili, a spokesman for the Kakheti Regional Service of the Georgian Ministry of Environment and Agriculture, ...