Nobody wants to buy Bulgarian plums

At the moment, we have a totally distorted fruit market due to duty-free imports from Ukraine and Moldova, and I must say quite responsibly that a traditional group of fruits such as plums will disappear for Bulgarian producers. This was stated to agri.bg by Tsvetan Tsekov from the "Fruits and Vegetables" Branch Chamber. "We raised the alarm about this some time ago. This year there is not even a price, no one wants to buy plums. A similar thing happens with cherries, where the market is monopolized by two Italian companies. Due to the lack of associations, manufacturers cannot fight this monopoly. Now individual producers are being pressured," the branch representative added. Apart from the two most widespread crops, which are grown on over 100,000 decares, apples and other seed species are extremely seriously threatened, as all the trade routes are confused. Poland is the largest European producer of apples, Moldova also has a serious production. "In the end, we suffer as a ...