Our pickles are on the shelves of stores around the world, and the income that comes from their cultivation is in the thousands of euros.
These days, the harvest of “green gold” – pickles – has begun in many municipalities in Serbia.
One of the places focused on the production of this vegetable is Gospodjinci in the municipality of Zabalj. But, you will hardly try the lady’s pickles, because everything that is gathered during the season goes to the EU tables.
As much as 50 hectares of fruit will end up directly for processing in factories in Germany, Austria and other European countries.
The end of August is the beginning of the picking season, which will last until the end of next month. When the harvest is finished, the owners will know exactly how heavy the yield per hectare was this year, and the average is around 100 tons.
However, speculations already exist, since the season has been fruitful, so even now buyers and vegetable growers are rubbing their hands. The wholesale purchase price ranges from 20 to even 80 cents per kilogram.
The average yield of pickles per hectare should be around 100 tons, although since the harvest has just started and will last until the end of September, only then will it be known exactly how difficult this year’s harvest was. According to the purchasers, the purchasers are satisfied with the wholesale purchase price.
The difference in price varies depending on which classes the pickles are harvested. Their sorting goes immediately upon arrival from the field, from where they are placed in the refrigerator and stored all the way to the end customers.
Cooperative production of pickles on 10 acres can bring “net” earnings of 2,000 to 3,000 euros. If we take into account this year’s prices and the total area of 50 hectares that are under this plant in Gospodjinci, the vegetable growers in this Backa village will earn a million to a million and a half euros just from the purchase. The price on the markets is always at least a dinar higher than the purchase price, and additional income on an already solid budget.
Pickles are otherwise considered cheaper and lighter vegetable plants to grow. They can be grown indoors and outdoors, require very little financial investment and the only concern of porters is proper irrigation, because the quality of the fruit will also depend on that. Plants require a little lighter soil and plenty of water, but the most important thing for the quality of only the fruit is that you should never water a warm plant with cold water. Therein lies the whole trick to keep your pickles from being bitter.
The first, most profitable, class is the one in which the cucumbers are 6 centimeters long. That is why it is very important to address them at that time, because they must not exceed that length in any way.
It is very important to know and count on the fact that pickles require a lot of hard-working pickers, but also the fact that at the end of the season, all the work and effort around them pays off, Srbija Danas reports.
