Raspberries in Ukraine are twice as expensive this season as last year

This year, Ukraine has harvested a raspberry crop lower than planned, and raspberry prices will be higher than last year. This was stated in an interview with SEEDS by Taras Bashtannik, President of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association, EastFruit reports. “I think the raspberry harvest will be lower than last year, given the weather conditions and the obvious shortage of people. And raspberry prices, on the contrary, will be higher than last year, two times, even two and a half times. Of course, there is a certain portion of the lowest quality raspberries – from households, which they are now selling for 35-40 hryvnia. On the other hand, a year ago, the same households, not respecting their labor, sold it for 20 hryvnia. Therefore, we are talking about the fact that this year, even for them, the price is twice as high. If we talk about industrial enterprises that deliver high-quality first-grade raspberries to factories, then according to the average price this year, I ...