Demand and prices for imported tomatoes are falling in Ukraine

Ukrainian traders report a new wave of price reductions for imported tomatoes. A short-term but noticeable increase in prices last week was one of the reasons for the sharp decline in demand for Turkish tomatoes from buyers, according to analysts from the EastFruit project. Also, the project experts note that only a few batches of local greenhouse vegetables went on sale this week, due to the fact that most greenhouse farms in Ukraine have already completed the sales season. At the same time, the supply of imported tomatoes on the Ukrainian market continued to gradually increase, which became the main reason for the price decline in this segment. Thus, today greenhouse tomatoes go on sale at 70-80 UAH/kg ($1.68-1.92/kg), which is on average 11% cheaper than at the end of the last working week. The main reason for the negative price trend in the greenhouse tomato segment, according to producers, is a sharp decline in demand for this product, as well as the quality of the vegetables ...