Poland: Raspberry purchase prices below profitability; farmers threaten to resume protests

Increased import of raspberries from Ukraine to the entire EU makes cultivation in Poland unprofitable. Current purchase prices are 6.5 to 7 PLN/kg of raspberries, which is below the profitability level - we read on the Radio Maryja website. Growers in Poland fear that purchase prices will continue to fall, because the price pressure from Ukraine is too great. Farmers are demanding market regulation at the EU level and are considering protests. Ukrainian is pushing out Polish As Sylwester Dziewulski from the Lublin Chamber of Agriculture said on Radio Maryja, according to Polish growers, import from Ukraine currently amounts to several thousand tons and has led to a drastic reduction in purchase prices. Even if Ukrainian raspberries did not flow directly to Poland, other EU countries are also buying them. As a result of price pressure, Polish fruit is being pushed out of the EU market, and not only there. Poles are slowly losing, among others, Scandinavian markets, where we used ...