The summer droughts left a huge mark on this year's yields, and peppers, tomatoes, cabbage and potatoes were the ones that failed the most. That's why this winter we will be paying more for the winter tax, somewhere around 1.500 dinars for a jar of ajvar
Consequences were are low yield and quality, so we expect a high price for this year's crop of peppers, tomatoes, cabbage or potatoes on markets and in stores. Experts say that we should not hope for a decrease in vegetable prices and that this year we can forget about cheap ones winter house, he writes RTS.
Weakened quality of "ajvarusha"
"The peppers I planted indoors on May 20 all dried up and I had to cut them out." The temperature in the greenhouse used to be as high as 70 degrees. The plants could not survive," explains Janos Balint, a vegetable grower from Mihajlovo.
Currently, in three greenhouses of 300 square meters, there are peppers from the later planting. ajvarusha
"Unfortunately, it's all second and third grade paprika." This year, for the first time, I don't have first-class peppers, and I can say that I'm not happy about that," he adds.
Watering didn't help either.
Miroljub Janković from the Association "Futoški Kupus" tells RTS that this year a big problem was the rapid loss of water from the soil, as well as that in addition to very frequent watering, farmers failed to save the vegetables.
"At the end of June and the beginning of July, when the cabbage was supposed to be planted, the temperature of the soil on my plots was over 50 degrees. These are incredibly stressful conditions to bring plants to the field. We had to water the soil a lot in order to cool it down so that we could even plant plants," says Miroljub Janković.
He adds that it is difficult to estimate the cost of irrigation, and the struggle to root the disease in general lasted for 24 hours.
A jump in the price of winter clothes
Despite the smaller crop of vegetables intended for drying, producers can still hope to make money there. Pepper yields range from three to four, up to 15 tons per hectare under irrigation conditions.
This year there will not be five, but three or four cuttings of leafy parsley for processing, and satisfactory yields of fennel and spinach were also achieved. There will be enough dried vegetables, first of all, for export, because more than 90 percent of this production is sold abroad.
As "Vreme" wrote earlier, last year the prices of vegetables for the winter season were significantly lower.
The price of cucumber was 150 dinars, today the average price is 200 dinars per kilogram in the markets. Then paprika was 225 dinars, today it is 300, and last year's price of cauliflower was 300, while today it is 500 dinars.
On the Belgrade markets, you can find peppers from 120 up to 400 dinars.
Over 1.000 dinars for a jar of ajvar
Radovanka Stanojević from the village of Smilovac sells winter clothing at the central Belgrade market Zeleni venac.
"The most we have for sale is a winter house. We sell bottled tomatoes, syrups, sweets and jams from different fruits, ajvar, pinđur... I'm retired and it's not a problem for me to make, but for those who work, it's easiest to buy an already made winter coat," she told the "Vremena" reporter.
The prices of made winter clothes on the markets do not vary too much at the moment, but as the sellers say, there will be an increase in prices because they expect a jump in demand while the supply is less due to the drought.
The current price of a colorful salad, pickles, and pasteurized peppers is around 500 dinars.
A jar of ajvara costs 1500 dinars, but sellers announce that it will go for 250. Tomatoes in bottles cost 500 dinars. A jar of sweets and jam costs from 1000 to XNUMX dinars, depending on what they are made of.
Source: RTS
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