How have potato prices changed over the year in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?

Fresh Common Potato

Published Jan 19, 2022

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According to EastFruit analysts, the situation in the region's potato market has stabilized after massive imports in the first half of the season. In the coming months, harvesting of early varieties of potatoes will begin in the southern regions of the countries of Central Asia. In the meantime, it is possible to draw intermediate results of how much prices for potatoes have changed over the year and where it is now the cheapest, and where, on the contrary, you have to pay more for potatoes.

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As we can see from the chart below, Poland became the leader in terms of the relative increase in the price of potatoes. However, last year the situation with potatoes in Poland was very difficult - lockdowns and the closure of restaurants and hotels led to the shutdown of factories for processing potatoes into french fries, which led to a drop in prices to a critically low level. Therefore, the base for comparison was too low and such a figure should not surprise anyone. Even with such a seemingly sharp increase in the price of potatoes in Poland over the year, it is now at a lower level than in the "pre-Covid" years in the same period. But the dynamics of prices for other countries is really indicative. Prices in Ukraine, where there are problems with the quality of potatoes and the temporary impossibility of exporting it even to Belarus, are now 36% lower than last year. And this despite the fact that in all neighboring countries prices have increased quite significantly over ...

Source: Eastfruit