Ukraine is the second largest producer of black currants in the world

This opinion was expressed by farmer Volodymyr Tymkiv in a comment to "Details". He noted that the price of currants this year is high - about UAH 70/kg, and they take them for freezing from under the harvester. The farmer explains that currants, along with blueberries and raspberries, are among the most common berries in the country. It currently covers approximately 4.5 thousand hectares, and the area is increasing every year. "Demand began to rise for the saplings themselves, then the war began - it fell. Now, I see a trend again due to the fact that the price has gone up, and many farmers are interested," the producer said. The deputy director of the Institute of Horticulture of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine Oleksandr Yareshchenko, for his part, assured that Ukraine is second in Europe and, in fact, second in the world in the production of black currants. "As of last year, the production of currants was estimated at about 25,000 tons - the gross ...