There is a lot in Serbia, she gave birth like never before, and the market is LOOKING for it

Many growers from neighboring countries, due to various market disruptions, gave up production and abandoned their orchards, so Darko Topalović, from the village of Miokovci, near Čačak, waited his five minutes.

– I have been producing and selling fruit for more than thirty years, but this is how I will take care of it plums I haven’t waited yet. We had about 140 tons, everything came out at a very good price. We sold them to a company that exported them to Croatia, from where they later went to the market in European countries. It happened for the first time that customers did not ask any questions, every plum passed, even the one that hit the city and the one that was clean as a tear – said Darko.

The purchase price of plums at the beginning of the season was 40 dinars, and a few days before the end of the harvest for the Stanley variety, it reached the amount of 60 dinars. Although in previous years the Russian market was a safe haven for Serbian fruit growers, this year it has shown that Europeans are considerably more generous, but also less demanding customers.

– Women who read also earned double the allowances because it was worth it. I have never given you sweeter earnings, nor have I earned better. In fruit growing, everything is unpredictable and you never know what to expect in those outdoor factories. Sometimes you are a colonel and sometimes you are deceased. But it is very important to reinvest in production and not give up if a bad year happens, says this Čačak fruit grower.

Estimated to be from Serbia by Croatia this year some 913 tons of plums were destined. They are sold there at a price of seven to ten kuna, which is 112 to 160 dinars per kilogram. In addition to being fresh, dried plums are also imported, and this is the type of production that many Serbian fruit growers have recognized as extremely lucrative.