The EU walnut market is going through difficult times, as exports from Moldova have decreased, Oleg Tyrsine, president of the Union of Moldovan Nut Producers Associations, said on January 31 in an interview with Sputnik Moldova. .
Tyrsine said that there is an opinion from 8-10 years ago that the EU has a walnut shortage of 150,000 tonnes. The free market has been busy for a long time.
According to the expert, Moldova managed to sell its entire harvest in the EU due to the geographical proximity and the taste of the Moldovan walnuts. Suppliers in the US, Chile and China remained with large remaining balances.
moldova “He never left with a great production balance after the end of the season. This year, unfortunately, it also affected us. Nobody expected this. The European market is quite balanced, where there is neither a great shortage nor an excess of products”.said the expert.
Moldovan nut producers supply 70-80% of their production to the EU. Due to inflation, the consequences of coronavirus restrictions, the events in Ukraine, the energy crisis, the average European has a different budget, Tyrsyne said.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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