Market overview for the 25th week of 2020 - Potato prices rose in Ukraine, while carrots went up in price in Georgia.

According to East-Fruit, this week in most countries that regularly monitor the project, last year's supply of potatoes was reduced to a minimum, while carrots from the 2019 harvest were still relatively current. The situation on the market of these two crops was unstable, and a rather active increase in prices was present along with their equally significant decrease. Potatoes The most significant rates of cheapening of potatoes this week were observed in Russia and Poland, where prices for new crop products fell by an average of a third. At the end of the reporting period, local early potatoes in the Russian market managed to drop in price to $ 0.33-0.46 / kg. Nevertheless, Russian importers managed to slightly increase prices for products imported from Azerbaijan and Egypt, and at the end of the week they could already be purchased at $ 0.47-0.68 / kg. In Poland, prices fell for both local and imported potatoes of the 2020 harvest. Local farmers revised prices down to $ ...