{"id":4634,"date":"2025-04-16T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:01:10","slug":"romanias-fruit-and-vegetable-crops-severely-hit-by-adverse-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4634","title":{"rendered":"Romania’s fruit and vegetable crops severely hit by adverse weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fruit and vegetable producers are calling for urgent state intervention after recent episodes of severe frost destroyed large swathes of Romania’s horticultural output, according to Ziarul Financiar,<\/a> quoting a message of the Association of Agricultural Producer Groups and Organisations “Fruleg-Ro.”<\/p>\n

Their message indicates that food and vegetable imports and prices will rise this year, with a significant impact on inflation and trade deficit.<\/p>\n

The “Fruleg-Ro” association, which includes the 50 largest national cooperatives, warned that extreme weather between late February and April has led to a near-total crop failure, with devastating implications for the industry and rural employment.<\/p>\n

Romania cultivates fruits on over 140,000 hectares and vegetables on 93,000 hectares. Annually, these sectors yield 1.4 million tons of fruits and 2.3 million tons of vegetables.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fruleg-Ro warned that without compensation, the impact of this year’s losses could be irreversible, citing the long-term consequences of orchard abandonment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“An abandoned orchard, to which specific conservation works are not applied, has minimal chances of recovery, even in a subsequent favourable meteorological context,” the association said.<\/p>\n

Romania is already dependent on imports for a significant portion of its fruit and vegetable consumption, with 40% of fruits and 25% of vegetables sourced from abroad. In 2023, fruit imports reached 915,000 tons, valued at EUR 940 million, with key suppliers including Turkey, Greece, Germany, and Poland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fruleg-Ro cautions that without government assistance, the import reliance will deepen further, undermining Romania’s food and economic security.<\/p>\n

iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source:\u00a0Yuriy Nevmerzhitskii<\/a>\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fruit and vegetable producers are calling for urgent state intervention after recent episodes of severe frost destroyed large swathes of Romania’s horticultural output, according to Ziarul Financiar, quoting a message of the Association of Agricultural Producer Groups and Organisations “Fruleg-Ro.” Their message indicates that food and vegetable imports and prices will rise this year, with […]<\/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-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","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=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}