EF Price Alerts: Widespread vegetable market instability and rising prices for garden strawberries in Georgia on Week 24, 2022

Fruits

Vegetables

Georgia

Published Jun 18, 2022

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The greenhouse vegetable sector has become the main focus of price changes for vegetables and fruits in the EastFruit monitoring region this week. At the same time, greenhouse tomatoes became cheaper almost everywhere, and the cucumber market was characterized by a mixed price situation. Other segments of the fruit and vegetable market were more stable, and prices changed only occasionally.

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For example, early potatoes fell in price in Poland, prices for apricots fell in Moldova and last year's potatoes rose in price, and prices for garden strawberries and Granny Smith apples rose in Georgia. Meanwhile, in the countries of Central Asia, prices for carrots simultaneously decreased: in Uzbekistan, products of early varieties fell in price, and in Tajikistan, last year's stocks. Price alerts. Berries The garden strawberry season continued to gain momentum almost everywhere, especially in the western part of the project monitoring. However, this week this did not lead to a decrease in prices, and, on the contrary, they even grew in Poland and Georgia, the main reason for which was the weather conditions. Thus, due to rainy weather, the supply of garden strawberries on the Georgian market decreased, the quality of local berries left much to be desired, and there were practically no supplies of products from Turkey. As a result, those producers who could ensure an ...

Source: Eastfruit