The president of the Polish Gardeners’ Union has said that the apple market collapsed due to the Russian embargo.
Polish apples can be bought in new countries for export: Vietnam, the United Arab Emirates, India or Colombia. Soon they will be available in Indonesia and Malaysia. However, the new markets will not compensate the losses caused by the ban on export to Russia, where up to one million tons of these fruits were shipped annually, said Mirosław Maliszewski, head of the Polish Union of Apple Growers.
“We are waiting for help from the authorities, both Polish and the European Union (EU),” he admitted in a conversation with Interia on 17 February.
He warns that in the current conditions more and more often growers decide to uproot trees whose fruit cannot be sold.
“The Polish apple market has already collapsed. The main reason for that is the ban on trade with Russia, which has been buying huge quantities of this fruit from us for decades. It was our chance, which we used to the maximum. Our whole sector was based on this market. We were the largest importer of apples in the world,” he added.
Maliszewski said that the Polish farms have excellent equipment, the trading and logistics companies are also well equipped. People have knowledge and experience. And no one wants to ruin all of this potential.
On 10 February the columnist of the Polish publication Myśl Polska pointed out that the sanctions imposed against Russia have not had the expected effect, and the economic Blitzkrieg of the West has failed. Within a year, Western countries, having started to actively fight the Russian economy, imposed 11,000 new sanctions, and the total number of restrictions imposed on Russia amounted to 13,000, which is more than the number of restrictions for all countries in the world. However, Russia withstood the blow with dignity, the publication noted.
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