Erratic weather may cut this year’s fruit and berry harvest by 25%

Erratic weather may cut this year’s fruit and berry harvest by 25%, says Dmytro Kroshka, chairman of Ukraine’s Agrarian Export. “Growers complain of the rainy spring, dry summer, and hail due to rapid temperature changes,” he told reporters. The harvest of stone fruits, like cherries, is to fall by 15%, to 38,000 tons. Production of apples, a major export last year, may fall 30%. On the other hand, blueberry and walnut harvests may grow by 30% this year.