“We are to develop, keep planting. We want to expand beyond 100 hectares. Yield per hectare is 100 times higher than the yield of a corn crop,” Octavian Radu said.
The annual harvest of the Sunny Berry farm is exported, but there is also demand from the domestic market, the entrepreneur added. The plot in Jieni, Olt County, was planted in 2018 and this year yielded its first 50-ton harvest. The businessman says he wants the harvest to reach 250 tons in three years.
“We used EU funds for this business and plan to expand by adding additional crops (considering blueberries are seasonal i.e.).”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)