In Russia, a bad harvest of berries and apples is predicted

Published 2024년 5월 28일

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Russia is experiencing significant issues that are expected to raise the prices of berries by 20-30%. The problems include adverse weather conditions such as frosts and hailstorms, which have damaged apple trees and strawberries in the Central Federal District, making up to 70% of flowering apple trees and 25-30% of strawberries unproductive. Additionally, the cost of imported materials, components, equipment, and planting material needed for agricultural production is rising, leading to increased logistics and labor costs. These challenges, coupled with the use of lower-quality planting material and simpler technologies, result in lower yields and quality of berries, making it difficult to predict the production outcomes compared to previous years.

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Due to frosts, hailstorms, lack of imported materials, components, equipment, planting material, rising costs of logistics and labor costs of seasonal agricultural workers, the prices of berries in Russia will increase by 20-30%. Late frosts also damaged most apple trees in the Central Federal District. This is reported by "Moskovskaya gazeta". According to the estimates of the head of the Association of Gardeners of Russia, Igor Mukhanin, from 50% to 70% of flowering apple trees in the Central Federal District have been damaged. "There will be some strawberries - the last flower stalks, some blueberries, raspberries," said Ihor Mukhanin. — Strawberries in the Central Zone were all frozen. And strawberries turn out to be flower-bearing for three weeks. The top two peduncles have died, and the last two seem to be alive. So there will be 25-30% of the strawberry harvest. It will appear before the end of June. If we talk about imported strawberries, the Czech Republic and Poland lost ...

Source: Agrotimes