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Walnuts: Impressive on both sides of the spectrum

September 22, 2017 at 9:25 AM , Starry Night Ltd.
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SOFIA. Throughout the North regions, farmers have not seen such a strong harvest for a period of at least a few years. However, in some orchards within the central and eastern South, farmers had to cut down their projections.

BULGARIA. Not all orchard owners could offer prices right now since the majority of them are still in the midst of harvest, but for those who do – prices stand high! Yet, prices for organic walnuts are still not available on the market while prices for conventional kernels are only offered for some calibers.

Walnuts: prospects for some regions are all-times highs

Farmers throughout the Northwest are already approaching the end of harvest; those in the Northeast are still in the midst of it; while owners of walnuts orchards in the central North are just starting to enter the fields. In any of the aforementioned regions, farmers are already recording higher outputs than what they did last year.

However, as every coin has two sides, so does the walnut sector in the country. Some farmers with orchards in the regions of the central and eastern South suffered the effects of several frosts, uncompromisingly hitting the crop in a sequence of a few weeks, during the blossoming of the walnut tree. As a result, some of them will repeat the results of last year’s harvest while others will record meager outputs.

Overall, this year’s output will be much stronger than the one from harvest 2016-17. In addition, the kernels are expected to be well matured. The steaming of prices is projected to cool off sometime in the end October when walnut owners of substantial orchards release their nuts on the market.

Walnuts, Bulgaria

Type

EUR/kg

light halves

8,60

light quarters

7,75

in shell

2,07

EXW Bulgaria

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