July 29 2008, 13:08

Western Ukraine to lose harvest

Natural disaster in the territory of the western Ukraine damaged a significant part of potato and vegetable harvest in the local farms.

According to "Fruit-Inform" data, the most injured are Ivano-Frankovsk, Chernovtsy, Lvov, Zakarpatiye and Volyn oblasts. Farmers inform that the areas under vegetables are fully flooded in some regions.According to the producers, when water goes down, to save potato and root crops will be impossible, palatability traits of production will worse because of surplus of moisture content, also potato will be unsuitable even for short-term storage.

According to the estimations of the producers, vegetable harvest loss will total about 20%-50%. This bad weather negatively influenced fruit trade. Supply of apricots, peaches as well as early apples and pears significantly decreased on the wholesale markets as harvesting stopped in many farms because of flood.

The specialists of "Fruit-Inform" try to analyze the influence of the existent situation on the market of vegetables and fruits in Ukraine. We remind that you can get to know the most actual problems of fruit and vegetable industry of Russia and Ukraine visiting the Third International Conference "Fruit & Vegetable Business of Russia - 2008" and the Fifth International Conference " Fruits and Vegetables of Ukraine 2008"