Greenhouse tomato production may sharply decrease in Moldova

Published 2023년 2월 23일

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The article highlights the challenges facing Moldovan tomato farmers in 2023, with the cultivation area expected to decrease due to an energy crisis and a brain drain. The energy crisis has led to a strategic hoarding of fuel, resulting in only those with sufficient energy resources planning production. Furthermore, the mass migration of the able-bodied population from Moldova in 2021 and 2022 has led to a shortage of seasonal labor, forcing farmers to limit the production of annual crops. Other issues such as water scarcity and decreasing purchasing power of the population will also impact the agricultural sector. Under these circumstances, Moldovan vegetable growers are pivoting their focus towards producing vegetables for daily use and the foreign market, particularly those in the 'borscht set'.

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According to the operators of the Moldovan market of resources for agriculture, in 2023 tomatoes in greenhouses of all types and levels of manufacturability in the country will be grown on a maximum of one to three hundred hectares. In previous years, the total area of protected ground plantations in Moldova fluctuated between 1-1.5 thousand hectares, of which up to 60% fell to tomatoes. EastFruit analysts identify two main problems that predetermined this state of affairs on the eve of the new sales season. The first is the energy crisis, which suddenly made firewood and coal a strategic raw material. As a result, production plans for the winter-spring of 2023 were built only by those greenhouse farmers who managed to stock up on energy resources last fall. The rest did not even begin to buy seeds of tomatoes and other vegetables for early cultivation in greenhouses. Also, we are not talking about two production cycles, the maxim - about one, with harvesting in late spring - ...

Source: Eastfruit