Peter De Craemer
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Pioneers in Armenian greenhouse cultivation (opens the original)
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Rockberry, an Armenian greenhouse grower of strawberries and bell peppers, was built almost from scratch by chairman Aleksan Arakelyan, who spent years encouraging European suppliers to take an interest in Armenia and brought in varieties nobody in the region had grown before. This year, restrictions on exports to Russia, long his main market, have pushed the company toward the Gulf states instead, while also exploring opportunities to develop exports to Europe. From an idea among friends to a g
"Greenco builds modern orchards with Italian partners" (opens the original)
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In the orchards of Armenia's Ararat and Kotayk regions, Greenco has grown from a 30-hectare start-up in 2017 into a 250-hectare fruit producer supplying apples, pears, cherries, apricots, nectarines and grapes across the region, using tree plants imported from Italy. This year, cherries turned out to be the most profitable crop. The company farms across two distinct sites. "One of our orchards is in the Ararat region, in the south of the country. The other is in Kotayk, at 1,800 metres above sea
Armenian tomato grower targets Europe following Russian ban (opens the original)
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In the surroundings of Lake Sevan, at nearly 2,000 metres, Armenian company Green Solutions is growing tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers in what co-owner Hakob Azaryan calls the highest greenhouse in the country. Founded in 2021 and still expanding, the young company has learned to grow three demanding crops in as many years while pushing into premium European and Gulf markets. Piecing together a plot of landBuilding a modern high-tech greenhouse in Armenia is not simply a matter of finding open g
A stone fruit season shaped by a closed border (opens the original)
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Near the end of a turbulent stone fruit season, one dominated by Russia's decision at the end of May to close its border to Armenian produce, David Saakyan, owner of the company Bellybella, a grower of flat peaches, flat nectarines and plums, comments on the effects of the embargo that rippled through the whole local market. "The local prices were quite low because producers that weren't able to export at all flooded the market with their product," Saakyan explains. "But also in the European mar
Russia shuts the door on Armenian fresh produce, EU comes to the rescue (opens the original)
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Comparing the two-year average for 2019-2020 with that for 2023-2024, Armenia's vegetable production fell by 3.6%, from just over 1.02 million to almost 980,000 tonnes. The decline was driven mainly by potatoes, by far the most important crop (down 17%), and by cauliflower and broccoli (down 49%). On the other side of the ledger, notable risers included cucumbers (up 66%) and aubergines (up 15%). Tomatoes, the second-largest crop, held more or less steady (up 1%), as did onions (down 4%). Fruit
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