Total exports of Ukrainian apples over the period under review grew by 2.3 times.
While imports of Ukrainian fresh fruit and berries to the European market continue to rise, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on December is conducting a training seminar in Kyiv aimed at helping farmers prepare for even greater volumes of fruit and berry exports.
The so-called head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ("DPR"), Alexander Zakharchenko, has reportedly ordered to seize all crops, namely vegetables, fruit, grapes, etc., grown by households on "unauthorized" plots of land, according to the "republic's" website.
Deterioration of weather conditions and frosts to minus 1-4 degrees Celsius at night threaten the future harvest of fruit trees in Ukraine, chief weather forecaster of Opogode.ua Natalia Didenko wrote on Facebook.