This year's currant harvest in Russia will be two to three times smaller than usual

In Central Russia, May frosts turned out to be disastrous for many crops. In particular, black currants, traditional for this territory, suffered. This berry has a fairly short flowering period, during which this year there were negative temperatures. For the second year, due to bad weather, the currant harvest will be two to three times less than traditional volumes, Irina Koziy, General Director of the Berry Union and the FruitNews news agency, told the National Agrarian Agency. According to her, berry farms will collect less than one thousand tons. This is more than the supply of fresh currants from abroad, but at the same time it is several times less than the import of frozen berries. In Russia, not many agricultural producers are currently engaged in growing black currants, however, given the volume of imports (over 10 thousand tons of frozen berries), our market has room to grow. It would seem that the culture familiar to every summer resident is not so simple when it comes ...