Thuringian fruit farmers celebrate normal harvest after frost damage!

Thuringian fruit farmers celebrate normal harvest after frost damage!

What a harvest time for the Thuringian fruit growers! After the past year was shaped by devastating frost damage, the producers look at the fruit harvest with optimism this season. This year the frost ghost is largely absent and the crop expectations are in the normal range. According to mdr this year, the tasty strawberries have particularly benefited and show themselves in the best form.

The harvest of sweet cherries has just started and initial results reveal yields in early varieties. But the later cherries there is excitement: frost damage causes the farmers headache. This situation is particularly bitter when you consider the losses of the previous year when frost nights led to an almost complete failure in many nuclear opera in April.

The shadows of the past

Despite the relatively positive perspectives this year, the memory of the frosty past gnaws at fruit and winegrowers. In the past year, some even lost all of their harvest. According to The Thuringian could have been out of up to 90 percent of the apple harvest in April 2023. Minister of Agriculture Susanna Karawanskij is already making an appeal to the companies, increasingly being on harvesting insurance in order to better counter future frost risks.

The financial situation is oppressive, and the state parliament discusses support for the cultivation companies affected by crop failures. While the return to normality is noticeable, many farmers have to search for the path of the EU aid application. This aid is intended to help alleviate the frost-related losses, such as the n-tv reported.

Waiting for the help

Anyone who has become a lying situation through the frost-related losses can now apply for EU aids. The prerequisites are clear: a frost -related harvest failure of over 30 percent and damage of at least 7,500 euros. Local companies have time until January 8, 2025 to submit their applications to the State Office for Agriculture.

Although the harvest situation is largely positive this year, a fader remains after taste. The farmers must be prepared for both fertile and cold times and face new challenges. In any case, it is not due to the sun that the strawberries taste particularly good this year - rather it is the interaction of optimal conditions and hope for a good harvest.