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Originally Posted by PhilaGardener
That orchard in Serbia looks wonderful.  |
Damson plum is the national fruit. But its production is in danger. There is talk about forbidding distilling of brandy at home, and this year the wholesale price growers were given by the exporters was 10 US cents per kilo. Exporters have formed a cartel, with the president's brother controlling it, that is destroying Serbian fruit producers. Sour cherry went for 45 cents per kilo this year, and raspberry is 1-1.2 dollars per kilo (bellow production cost).
There is even a prophesy that resounds in the national consciousness that one day all the Serbs will fit under one plum tree.