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Our Story

The time before Serbian prunes you know now.

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)

Bronze Age

17th Century

First written data about Serbian Prunes from Evliya Çelebi travelogue

17th Century

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

20th Century

Our Time

2009


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

Our Time

2010 / 2011

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

2010 / 2011

2012 / 2013

They liked our prunes. Our export of prunes doubled

2012 / 2013

2014 / 2015

We became a member of the International Prunes Association

2014 / 2015

2016 / 2017

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

2016 / 2017

2018 / 2019

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