Lithuania: spruce growers feel the squeeze this holiday season
It is high season in Lithuania’s largest spruce plantation. Around 60,000 trees will be shipped off to Scandinavian countries before Christmas. However, with the Russian market cut off, this year will not be profitable for spruce growers. Daivanas Pranciulis, who grows about 1 million trees in his plantation near Zagare, northern Lithuania, started preparing for…