Uzbekistan: For the first time in the 2022 season, wholesale prices for raspberries exceeded last year's levels

At the beginning of October 2022, EastFruit wrote about the emerging upward trend in the dynamics of wholesale prices for fresh raspberries in Uzbekistan, and analysts then predicted a further increase in prices for these products. In the following weeks, the situation on the raspberry market developed according to the most probable scenario, but the price jump turned out to be much larger than expected. Over the past week, the average wholesale price for fresh raspberries has increased by 43% and for the first time in the current season exceeded last year's levels. According to EastFruit price monitoring, from October 7 to October 14, 2022, the average wholesale price for fresh raspberries increased from 35,000 to 50,000 sum/kg (from $3.2 to $4.5), i.e. by 43% in just one week. At the same time, as of October 14, 2022, the average wholesale price for raspberries in Uzbekistan is 11% higher than on the same date in 2021. As can be seen from the graph, almost throughout the entire ...