Stone fruit production in Latvia - Cost 873

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Fruit and berry processing- The largest processing enterprises which use also Latvian-grown rawmaterial make juices or juice concentrates, additives to ice-cream andyoghurt.- The amount apples sold for processing at present is decreasing, becausein the modern intensive orchards it is more profitable to produce dessertfruits.- Joining the EU stimulated the establishing of small and home processingenterprises which use not only the traditional fruits and berries, but alsonew crops with high nutritive value – seabuckthorn, Japanese quince,cranberry.- At the moment there are about 30 such enterprises in Latvia, whoseactivities help to diversify the processed products in the market.
The total area of cherry plantations is about 890 ha, of these 90 ha of sour and41 ha of sweet cherries have been planted for market production, using subsidiesfor orchard establishment.At present, only one sour cherry variety isbeing widely grown in Latvia - the local cultivar'Latvijas Zemais‘.Cherry plantations are established withmicropropagated plants, as well as trees budded onPrunus mahaleb seedlings and plants from selfrootedlayers.Better sour cherry varieties with firm fruit fleshand small stone are lacking.
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