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The MARS crop monitoring team has presented its October crop yield forecast for 2024 in the European Union.

A large number of producers expect that wine will increase in price this year. The reasons are the prolonged heat in the summer and the reduced harvest. However, this also has a positive side - it may be less, but the wine is of better quality, or at least such are the expectations. The strong sun this year melted nearly 30% of the grape harvest in Bulgaria.

Due to drought, lack of water for irrigation and high temperatures, Bulgarian farmers are abandoning potato growing, EastFruit reports. Local potatoes are being replaced with imported ones, disguised as Bulgarian, AgroTimes reports with reference to the publication “Fakty”. Read also: Potato prices set new records in Ukraine “Potato production is becoming increasingly difficult. There are many difficulties, and Bulgarian potatoes have been replaced with foreign ones, disguised as local ones. According to statistics, in 2006, potatoes were grown on an area of 260 thousand decares (26 thousand hectares – ed.), now – 54 thousand decares (5.6 thousand hectares). Very often, potatoes sold as Bulgarian have nothing in common with domestic production. The main problems are drought, lack of irrigation water and destructive temperatures,” the publication notes.