Blueberries in Ukraine are already cheaper than raspberries

During this week, the trend of a sharp drop in blueberry prices continued to deepen on the market in Ukraine, the EastFruit electronic publication reported. According to his analysts, farmers are already offering blueberries at 80 hryvnias per kilogram, which is below 2 dollars or 1.80-1.90 euros - an absolute price anti-record in the country's history. Moreover, raspberries for the fresh fruit market are now sold wholesale for no less than 100 hryvnias per kilogram, and raspberries for freezing - from 60 to 80 hryvnias. Until now, for the producers in Ukraine, it was a shocking drop in the prices of blueberries to 2.5 dollars per kilogram, but such drops happened only episodically, and the prices stayed at such a low level for no more than a week or two. And if we are talking about the period when a large part of the blueberry plantations in the country were staked, then the average wholesale price for them did not fall below 6-7 dollars per kilogram. Raspberry acreage in Spain ...