New price increase for cucumbers in Bulgaria

New price increase. The biggest shock is the price of cucumbers. They have jumped nearly 20 percent. Since the beginning of the year, the market price index has risen by 4.54 percent, according to statistics. A year ago it was about 1,540 points or more than 24 percent lower. The base level of the 1,000-point index is from 2005. The market price index, which reflects wholesale food prices, rose 1.27 percent this week to 1,910 points, according to the State Commission on Commodity Exchanges and Markets. The price of greenhouse tomatoes jumped by 5.8 percent to BGN 2.75 per kilogram, and greenhouse cucumbers rose by 19.2 percent to BGN 4.85 per kilogram at the end of the week, profit.bg reports. trade at BGN 0.86 per kilogram. Carrots are 7.7 percent more expensive and sell at BGN 0.98 per kilogram. The price of cabbage jumped by 6.7 percent to BGN 1.12 per kilogram, and that of red peppers - by 3.3 percent to BGN 2.50 per kilogram. Apples fell by 5.9 percent to BGN 1.27 per ...