apple crop

Late frost, storms and rising costs slash Serbia’s fruit harvest but drive record export prices

Professor Zoran Keserović of the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad said that late spring frost destroyed part of Serbia’s apple crop and that, while the purchase price of 60 dinars per kilogram is acceptable, production costs have risen sharply. He recalled that the apple harvest in 2021 reached a record 515,000 tons, while this year’s yield is expected to be around 330,000 tons. In addition to frost, the war in Ukraine has reduced production in recent years by disrupting…