Racovat (Moldova) (AFP) – Moldovan apple grower Constantin Furculita was dreaming of juicier profits when he pumped some $2 million into his 42-hectare orchard. But his hopes of a windfall turned sour last summer when Russia unexpectedly slapped an embargo on fruit exports from the ex-Soviet nation in apparent retaliation for its historic shift towards the Europe Union.”From one day to the next, we found ourselves hit by an embargo and with the harvest in the fields,” Furculita told AFP. “Up to 2014, 99 percent of my production was heading to the Russian market,” said the 35-year-old farmer in the …read more
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