In Moldova, for the second year in a row, there was a late start to the purchase of walnuts

With rare pauses for short-term light precipitation, an abnormally warm and dry autumn continues in Moldova. In similar weather conditions in 2019-2020. By mid-October, the country was beginning a season of active purchasing from farmers and, in a broad sense, the rural population, walnut kernels for export. By this time, the working wholesale price for this product had already been formed. This year, events in the Moldovan nut market, according to EastFruit analysts, are developing differently and are more similar to last year’s situation, when the marketing season in this segment of the fruit market began in November. According to specialists from the Union of Nut Crops Producers Associations of the Republic of Moldova, the late start of walnut procurement is due to several factors. First. Changing consumer habits in the realities of the economic crisis. Even in EU countries with a high level of solvency of the population, the average consumer is beginning to change gastronomic ...