Hungary: Cheap vegetables, fruits - let's take this now

Cheap, delicious, storable (source: indexvas.hu) Traditionally, autumn is the time of potato storage, although today fewer and fewer people buy large quantities at such times, they would not be able to store where. But since the domestic crop also appears among the vegetable growers at this time, we tend to encounter more depressed prices for quite a few weeks than in other parts of the year. Last week, however, its port was 25-30 percent more expensive than last year’s price level, which is not a good sign from a consumer perspective. According to AKI market information, tomatoes are also 25-40 percent more expensive now, although supply is still far from scarce. The biggest price increase was staggeringly among head cabbages: we now pay 55 percent more for red and 80 percent more for white. Carrots picked in late summer and picked in the fall are only slightly cheaper this year, but parsley is still poisonous unless taken in larger packages. Unfortunately, the prices of kohlrabi ...