Berry growing

Ukraine has been the world leader in net exports of frozen raspberries since 2024 and may continue this trend in the 2026/27 marketing year.

Ukrainian berry farms are redirecting part of their production to foreign markets due to declining domestic consumption. The European Union remains the main destination, while producers have also been expanding their presence in the US in recent years.

At the end of the 2025/26 marketing year, Ukraine recorded record revenue from raspberry exports, while significantly reducing blueberry shipments to foreign markets.

Ukrainian raspberry and blueberry producers benefited from more favourable weather conditions in July, while the berry sectors in Poland and Serbia faced yield problems and labour shortages.

Orniberry, a Ukrainian blueberry producer, continues to expand its plantations and plans to triple its growing area.

Fruity Polissia LLC plans to develop a blueberry growing, cooling, sorting, and packing complex in the Volyn region.

Certified areas of organic cultivated berries in Ukraine totaled 1.6 thousand hectares in 2025, which is nearly 100 hectares less than a year earlier.

Poland leads in terms of purchases of organic berries from Ukraine.

As of 2024, the area under organic raspberry cultivation in Ukraine is estimated at 400–700 hectares. This remains a relatively small figure compared to the country’s total raspberry area of 6,000–7,500 hectares. The key raspberry-producing regions are Zhytomyr, Volyn, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, and Zakarpattia oblasts.

The share of organic blueberries in Ukraine is small - 4-6% (450-670 tons), but the potential is significant, because about 20% of certified plantations are still young and do not bear fruit. Currently, Ukraine ranks eighth in blueberry production in Europe.

Ukraine is seeing a growing trend toward the localization and fragmentation of strawberry producers, as concentrating plantations in one location has become a highly risky and challenging decision due to labor shortages.