Wine grapes to 30% less this year

With 30 percent less wine grapes are expected this year compared to 2009 and said in an interview for Darik head of the Executive Agency on Vine and Krasimir Koev. At the same time 30 per cent fell and wines from last year. This is mainly due to unrealized market large quantities of wine and the trend towards cheaper goods across Europe. Exports in the crisis, however, keep good pace. For the last six months we have exported about 22 million liters of wine. Krassimir Koev predicted purchase price of the grapes are between 0,30 and 0,80 per kilogram degree and at the end of the harvest to reach even 1 dollar. Krassimir Koev explained that this year we will have between 25 and 30 percent fewer grapes to harvest from 2009. Expectations were for around 210,000 tons of wine grapes, and the average yield is 400 kg / ha. The reason for the smaller quantity of grapes according Koev have lower temperatures in winter and freezing of vineyards in the region of Targovishte, Rousse, Silistra, and in southern Bulgaria, where the vines quite large areas, about 3500 acres near Haskovo, Lyubimets , Svilengrad also sprouted and this year they harvest not waiting. The average quality data indicate that it will be good and the grapes will have a high sugar content, said Koev. He said increased demand for white wines in the country. The data show that last year the Bulgarian was drank an average of 6 liters of wine, not counting domestic production.   ––––––––––––––––– –––––––––– Finance