Moldova

But before we get into the ins and outs of these apple and cherry growers, let us give you some Moldovan fruit production and export figures. Then you can place ...

And the yield is the same. Hopefully, we can continue selling all our apples on the fresh market and won't have to divert anything to the processing industry. "The fruit has to look attractive. "Moldova is catching up with the help of the World Bank program, but there's still a long road ahead. In summary: Moldova is the largest fruit exporter of the southeastern European countries mentioned. A gradual shift in cultivation from old to new varieties preceded the storage cells' construction. But then everything changed, and the focus shifted to modernization. "The whole family founded the cultivation company," Vitalii begins. All the more remarkable then that the country is the list's second-largest fruit and vegetable exporter, trailing only Serbia. It is immediately evident that Moldova is one of the region's smaller brothers. It owes this largely to a single crop and destination: apples going to Russia. Plus, Moldova and one other country, North Macedonia, are the only ones that export more fruits and vegetables than they import.