Fruit growers pleading for aid as crop decimated by frost

Ljubljana, 9 April - The cold snap that hit Slovenia this week caused damage to all types of fruit orchards nation-wide, as well causing injury to vineyards, olive groves and legumes, initial estimates by the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry (KGZS) show. In some areas all fruit crop is gone.

Kompolje, Dobrepolje Snow in late April. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Kompolje, Dobrepolje
Snow in late April.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

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