More and more markets appear Ukrainian plums

Analysts at East Fruit say one of the big surprises of this year’s plum season is that record low prices have emerged in the Ukrainian market. The main reason for this is that while last year prices moved significantly upwards due to significant spring frost damage and the pandemic, this year producers could expect abundant yields and the area of Ukrainian plum plantations has also been growing steadily. The current wholesale price of plums is around 70-80 HUF / kg in Ukraine. The country is beginning to become an increasingly strong market player in the region, although plum exports have not been explicitly typical of it in the past. FruitVeB reported that Ukrainians are already able to meet the high quality and stable supply chain expectations of fruit importers from the European Union this year. Our eastern neighbor is already exporting in large quantities to the Polish market in 2021, where prices are much higher and have shown an upward trend in the recent period as well. ...