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– Investments are needed, but the profitability of production must also be at a reasonable level. Whether the production of blueberries still provided growers with sufficient income, just at this point, when the unknown – says Dominika Kozarzewska, member of the board of the Promotion of Polish Blueberry.
– The blueberry production sector in Poland is quite large, it has over 1 thousand people. plantations with a total region of approx. 13 thousand. hectares. And there is still fruit, year after year, these plantings for a percentage period, and also with an interval, as in limiting – increasing to production. We estimate that at the moment it amounts to over 55 thousand. tonne per year – says Dominika Kozarzewska.
Highbush blueberry, commonly known as American, has been one of the Polish export hits for several years. As the Management Board of the Polish Economic Institute, in the last 20 years, blueberries have been the fastest growing fruit production in Poland. We got up her second, second in the EU (next to Spain) and sixth in the world.
– The dynamic development of this sector is influenced by factors. The first is that we have been very successful in exporting, the export of blueberries from Poland is not allowed every year – says the board member of the Polish Blueberry Promotion Foundation.
Poland is currently one of the advances in blueberry exportersthat are popular with users because of their quality. Domestic the fruit goes to a total of around 30 countries around the worldalthough about 96 percent. export of supplies to the EU market. The main recipients of Polish blueberries at the moment are Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries.
– Due to the fact that the Brexit market, which was the first one to do, has taken second place after German. And at the moment we are a bit in a transition period as the British market is getting smaller and smaller, says Dominika Kozarzewska. – We are also trying, in consultation with the administration, to act in this direction in order to open new markets. To joke among others Asia, while logistics for the local market will be a great achievement, a peak in the past. Perhaps, in the future, production will still exist to the countries of the European Union, but I hope that in the diversification of European and export countries, it is possible that it will also be possible to achieve supplies to such countries as Vietnam, Vietnam or India.
The dynamic increase in blueberry production in Poland is the result of not only growing, but also gaining a touring status. The cyclical “National consumption fruit and vegetables”, a study by Kantar, shows that approx. 8 million Poles eat more than 1 kg of this fruit annually, blueberry consumption in Poland in Poland again every year by approx. 8 percent. Due to its health benefits, blueberry is also more and more often perceived by surveillance as the so-called food.
How to supplement Dominika Kozarzewska from the Polish Blueberry Promotion Foundation, for producers of these fruits – as for producers of all fruit species – the achieved weather, which results from changes in changes, is an increasing challenge.
– We are perhaps in such a good position that all irrigation plants in Poland are, therefore, drought, for us there is as much simplification as for non-irrigated crops. We will have a very large increase in hurricanes or hailstorms. So that there are visible elements that can destroy the year-round protection in a few minutes, my tool should not be removed as part of the tool. We will cultivate this cultivation for a year, we will introduce in the summer generation, manual weeding, all pollinating insects are included, these I work a lot and one lasts for nine months so that for three you can collect these blueberries. Indeed, over the years, many plants show that they are at the last minute at the beginning – says the expert.
Investments are needed to become immune to the vagaries of the weather. Therefore, in recent years, blueberries have been investing in, among others, in production under covers. This one, however, is not only more expensive, but also technologically different.
– – how many in some places that they start a place that bring Kozarze, that the market is now, that now there are a few for not talking. – will we be able to pay for these questions only, that they are necessary, the accuracy of production must also be at a reasonable level. I can do something for ace as as ace service and in our part of Europe in the service. Whether the production of blueberries still provided growers with sufficient income, the great unknown at this point.
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