Bronze Age

Prunes pits (from sloe) found in excavations in stilt houses

(No, the guy on the photo is not spitting the prunes pits. This is actually a figure of foremother from Serbian Bronze Age)

17th Century

First written data about Serbian Prunes from Evliya Çelebi travelogue

18th Century

Fast-spreading of orchards due to a prohibition of alcohols consumption by Ottoman Empire

19th Century

Serbian prunes golden age

Massive use of household smokehouses

Average export of 26000t in Europe and the USA
- Yes we exported that much!

1867

Serbian prunes golden age

Export of 41.296 t (value of 64000 ducats)
– Yes we exported even more!

20th Century

First written data about Serbian Prunes from Evliya Çelebi travelogue

We had very good engineers to make it
(Glavinic, Halvekin and Stojkovic)

1923 - Serbian prunes export of 66.390 t
– Yes that was really a lot!

1929 - Sad time. Our prune variety affected by Plum Pox virus. Our prune was so important to us that we even put it on the post stamp.

1956 - Introduction of Stanley variety (tolerant to Plum Pox virus)
– Picture from 1966

1958 - Beginning of the first industrial production by the domestic construction of tunnel type driers.

Pitted Prunes
Decrease of export

Our Time

2009

4 Prunes Producers and friends sat together and decided to join forces. They established our association.

2010 / 2011

We decided to check if people still like our prunes. We invited 10 largest buyers from Russia to visit us

2012 / 2013

They liked our prunes. Our export of prunes doubled

2014 / 2015

We became a member of the International Prunes Association

2016 / 2017

We decided to expand to Europe.
We went to Germany and met with 10 German buyers.

2018 / 2019

We became a part of the International Nuts and Dried Fruit Council.
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