Fruit growers are at risk of bankruptcy. Frost will definitely affect prices, especially apples, says their boss

While in R, it is now seen that practically all of the species have frozen and in Moravia half of them, initially from the surrounding countries, but for now a piece and codes have not been sent.

It will have an impact on prices, Ludvk told iDNES.cz. According to him, how big it will be for the first time remains to be seen, because it is not clear whether the European race is made up of 30 or, for example, 70 percent. The north of France, the Benelux region, Slovenia, Austria and Poland are affected. He cannot yet estimate whether there will be a real shortage of apples, because the car will be shipped to Europe either from Ukraine or from New Zealand, which, according to him, is the least likely to be replaced.

According to him, the current situation is completely unusual. We asked the memorial, which in its entire life, i.e. in 65 years, does not remember such a calamity, he added. According to him, there was a similar incident in 1925, but not in the same way as now. Back then, in January and November, there were frosts around minus 40 C, which destroyed even the trees.

At present, it is believed that the codes will be worth at least one billion crowns. Folks, don’t know if they can stand it or if they don’t go bankrupt. And it doesn’t matter if he had a family business, or if you lead to the etzc, to the chairman. According to him, the companies will slowly run out of pensions, because they will not sell anything for years. They will get into the biggest problems at the end of this year and the arrest of the fifth year. In addition, he has to invest there, plant trees, revive them, cut grass, sweat activities, without which the orchard cannot do without, even if there is no fruit on the day.

Apple prices were pushed down by Polish overproduction

In addition, in recent years, apple farmers have often faced economic problems due to Polish overproduction that was going to Russia. Two of these imports went to Russia through the Belarusian market, but that changed after the outbreak of wolves in Ukraine. Don’t have a financial reserve, they are going to the edge, he explained. In addition to apples, there are gruky or tebe vests, but to a large extent, strawberries. If someone hasn’t blooded it, then it’s complete, otherwise I estimate codes around 50 and 70 percent, he added. According to the Czech Statistical Office, apples cost 37.28 K per kg in April, an increase of about half a crown.

At least this year, the government will reach the crisis support that was notified in 2016, according to the Minister of Agriculture Marek Vbornho, between 70 and 100 million crowns will be needed. Vlda prepared decoding programs for fruits in the past as well. For example, in 2018, they lost 208 million crowns, and they also won another 64 million crowns for the change of family name in 2019.

That’s when the discussion about the so-called fund of insurable risks, where rescuers could protect themselves from codes caused by low temperatures, but also from drought, for example, was reopened. In recent years, the Ministry of Agriculture has held the view that it will support the proposal and agree on the specific conditions of the non-governmental branches of the organization, which has not yet happened.

The frosts lasted between April 17 and 23, and lasted for several nights. According to the fruit trees, they reached minus 7 C in some areas, and the fruit trees burned for 10 hours. The problem was that the summer vegetation was accelerated by almost a month due to the previous high temperatures, and most of the fruit trees were after flowering, when a lot of fruit could be damaged even at temperatures around -2 C. According to the farmer, the frost reduced and 100 thousand tons of fruit only in sorry, concrete data will be available in a month.