Ukraine has sharply increased export prices for apples in the new season

Published 2024년 12월 12일

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Ukrainian apple exports are experiencing a significant price increase in the 2024/25 season, with the most notable rise observed in deliveries to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Sweden. The price hike is attributed to a decrease in Ukraine's harvest and a regional drop in apple production, alongside a surge in prices for apple concentrate. The high domestic market prices and the appeal of selling low-quality apples to concentrate factories have led to a decrease in apple exports, which is expected to result in minimal exports this season.

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According to EastFruit analysts, a sharp increase in export prices for Ukrainian apples is observed in the 2024/25 season. In particular, the most significant increase in average export prices was noted for apple deliveries to the UAE, where importers paid 40-60% more for Ukrainian fruits this season. Also quite significantly - by 30-40%, export prices for apples from Ukraine supplied to Saudi Arabia, which is the main sales market for this category of products in the current season, have increased. A similar increase in price is observed in apple exports to Kuwait. Sweden, one of the main buyers of Ukrainian apples in the EU, paid an average of 25% more than a year earlier. According to Andriy Yarmak, economist at the Investment Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the increase in apple prices in Ukraine is due not only to a decrease in the harvest in Ukraine, but also to a general decline in apple production in the region, which ...

Source: Eastfruit