#blueberrysector

The price of blueberry packing line usually plays a key role when it comes to investing in sorting and packing equipment. This article analyses the most important determinants of the price and provides an example pricing of the blueberry line.

The blueberry industry evolves. What are soft fruit market trends 2024? Read the analysis and follow the current directions of the market!

Participating in Fruit Logistica 2024 gave us great insight into the soft fruit market challenges that producers and packing companies in Europe face nowadays. You can read key findings of talks with our clients and people who visited Milbor's booth in this article.

The blueberry market in Europe is one of the fastest growing in the fruit and vegetable segment. The production and consumption of these berries is continuously on the rise. While 2021 was not a very positive year, experts prove that the industry still has room for newly-established plantations, and the fruit grown on them will still be marketable. However, following the needs of consumers and retail chains is the key for blueberry farms.

The highbush blueberry is one of the world’s fastest growing markets of fresh fruit. Marketing around these berries is – due to their health-promoting properties – very advantageous, which generates growing per capita consumption. Europe is the second largest importer of this fruit in the world, just behind the United States, so blueberries are grown by more and more European countries, Romania as one of them.