Using apple trees of Idared variety as firewood is more profitable in Moldova than growing apples
Over the past five to six years Moldova reduced area of apple each by a few hundred hectares each year. While in Moldova had 53 thousand hectares of apple orchard the total area went down in 2017 to 49 thousand hectares. New plantings were also made but the pace of new apple orchard development was slower than the process of uprooting.
In accordance with the “National strategy for the development of fruit production in Moldova until 2025” the country plans to further reduce area under the apple orchard to 42 thousand hectares. Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry of Moldova (MAFIM) wants to release land from neglected, old and unproductive plantations and thus, has promised to increase subsidies for uprooting of the old orchards up to 10,000 MDL per ha (US $526). However, associations of agricultural producers are in no hurry to promote uprooting as they are afraid of mass scale of area decline under apple orchards.
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