In Moldova, the 2022 walnut harvest is slower than expected

Given the favorable weather conditions, representatives of the Union of Nut Producers Associations of Moldova assumed that the harvesting of walnuts this year would be completed a week - ten days earlier than in 2021. Accordingly, the first batches of dried and sorted inshell nuts will be exported already in mid-October. According to EastFruit, due to low demand from wholesale buyers of walnuts from Romania and Moldova, as well as uncertainty about the actual level of starting prices for it, the harvesting process for late varieties of walnuts (Chandler, etc.) has slowed down. See also: There is no demand for walnuts from Moldova yet According to walnut growers, this is not the worst scenario for the development of events. According to their observations, walnuts of earlier varieties (Peschansky, Lara, Fernor, etc.), which were taken from the trees at the beginning of the harvesting campaign and looked good, lost their quality faster during post-harvest processing than walnuts of ...