Ukraine started buying potatoes from Poland

Ukraine began to import potatoes from Poland in large batches due to the rapid increase in the price of the domestic product. This is reported by EastFruit. They also started buying potatoes from Lithuania and Latvia. Producers note that the high price is caused by unfavorable weather, which negatively affected the quality of potatoes in Ukraine and its yield. Economist of the investment department of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Andriy Yarmak, noted that for several seasons in a row, Ukrainian farmers could not cover the costs of growing potatoes at the expense of wholesale prices. In such conditions, farms began to save on seed material. This was the reason for the decrease in the quality of potatoes and the volume of their production. Small-scale potato producers have started growing other crops, such as onions, carrots, cabbage and beets. Currently, wholesale prices for potatoes in Ukraine are the highest in history, both in hryvnias and ...