{"id":4281,"date":"2025-03-24T08:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T08:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2025-03-24T08:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T08:02:42","slug":"romanian-blueberry-farmer-invests-eur-8-mln-in-processing-and-packaging-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4281","title":{"rendered":"Romanian blueberry farmer invests EUR 8 mln in processing and packaging hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yami Fruits, a strawberry and blueberry producer controlled by four Romanian entrepreneurs, is building a fruit processing and packaging hall in \u015eoimus commune, Hunedoara county, with money from the Just Transition scheme (dedicated to regions hit by decarbonization), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/companii\/o-companie-din-brasov-care-produce-capsuni-si-afine-pe-mai-multe-22746729?mc_cid=d1a4e05122&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The production of blueberries and other forest fruits in Romania has developed quickly in recent years, but the statistics office&#8217;s outdated classifications fail to capture these new products, so the INS is not able to provide relevant national production data, although the dedicated agricultural bureaus are reporting county-level data. In Romania, over 6,000 tonnes of berries are harvested annually, of which 85% are exported, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/greennews.ro\/article\/85-din-productia-de-afine-si-zmeura-obtinuta-in-fermele-romanesti-ajunge-la-export\/?mc_cid=d1a4e05122&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Greennews.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to build a hall for sorting, processing, and packaging fruit in 250-gram and 500-gram pots. The product is perishable, so we need to sort the fruit before packaging,&#8221; Ciprian Virgil Munteanu, an economist by profession and associate of Yami Fruits, commented.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company is controlled by Ciprian Virgil Munteanu, with 60% of the shares, Gra\u0163ian Lupu, with 15%, Marius Florin P\u0103dure with 15%, and R\u0103zvan Nita with 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Public data shows that the company reported a turnover of RON 31 million (EUR 6\/2 million) in 2023, up 66% compared to the previous year, and a net profit of RON 724,000.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source:\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/jkunnen_info\">Jack Kunnen<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yami Fruits, a strawberry and blueberry producer controlled by four Romanian entrepreneurs, is building a fruit processing and packaging hall in \u015eoimus commune, Hunedoara county, with money from the Just Transition scheme (dedicated to regions hit by decarbonization), according to Ziarul Financiar. The production of blueberries and other forest fruits in Romania has developed quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}