Hailstorms have caused severe damages to apricot plantations in the area of Dobrogea. Late spring frosts had already affected over 15% of the trees and the storms have damaged nearly half of the apricot plantations.
In Tutrakan there are over 7,000 hectares devoted to the crop, and in some of them the harvest could not even start. "Overall, over 70% of the production in the cities of Silistra and Rousse has been damaged," stated Dimitrichka Tarpanov, member of the Association of Fruit Producers.
Growers complain that the current negotiations for the new 2014-2020 will again fail to provide aid for the crop. "When situations like this happen a couple of years in a row there is no quality fruit and you're doomed to liquidate it without covering the production costs or being able to finance it because there are no funds to support the domestic production," she explained.
Source - http://www.freshplaza.com/
