Due to the high temperatures at the beginning of March, the early varieties of fruit trees bloomed earlier than usual, but fruit growers and experts fear that frosts in the coming days could cause great damage to the orchards.
Few people react negatively when they see flowers, but these days they certainly do fruit growers in Serbia.
Temperatures at the end of this winter were well above average, so some varieties of fruit trees bloomed ten days earlier. It is, however, bad news for farmers because the weather forecast says that there will be frost again in the coming days.
It is feared that the scenario from last year could be repeated, when the crop was reduced by around 150.000 tons of different fruits, and that this is just one in a series of bad years in fruit growing.
Čačany farmer Tomislav Jelić last year he spoke about the torments for "Vreme". which he survived due to the turbulent temperature during the transition from winter to spring.
"I used to wake up at night, but not anymore," says Tomislav Jelić. He says, you turn something over in your head and realize that in the end it's a matter of luck, whether it will orchard give birth abundantly or everything will be crushed by frost or hail.
Jelić in Miokovci near Čačak has the most apples, less pears and cherries. He sees with his own eyes how is the climate changing.
Once, he remembers, as a child he spent the whole winter sledding and snowshoeing, and today children hardly see snow. February 2024 was the hottest ever, it was twenty degrees, real spring.
For the fruit, it was a signal to bud and bloom. "It started 25 to 30 days earlier than the XNUMX-year average," Jelic told last year's Međuvreme newsletter.
Apricots are the most affected by time
Ever since 2012, since he has been monitoring the impact of climate change on fruit trees, fruit growers in Serbia have been facing late spring frosts, says Professor Zoran Keserović for RTS.
Flowering this season, he explains, was ten days earlier compared to average years, but at the same time, it started ten days later compared to last year.
"This year we have two problems. One is that there were no bees during the flowering period, there are no bumblebees, there is poor pollination and this will affect the reduction of the amount of fruits. On the other hand, it can happen that low temperatures damage fruit trees, primarily apricots," says Zoran Keserović from the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad.
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