Ukraine: Overproduction of raspberries and low prices will continue in 2024

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Published Jan 23, 2024

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Despite export challenges, Ukrainian frozen berries, especially raspberries, have found a significant market abroad due to their lower price in 2023, according to Taras Bashtannik, President of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association (UPOA). The majority of these exports are shipped to the European Union, with a minor percentage going to North America. However, markets in Africa and Asia remain largely untapped due to low berry consumption and logistical competition from other countries.

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Despite the export crisis at the Ukrainian border, frozen berries from Ukraine managed to get abroad. Frozen raspberries were in greatest demand. President of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association (UPOA) Taras Bashtannik spoke about this in an interview with SEEDS. “Raspberries are a promising crop. But it went off with a bang abroad, because in 2023 it was 2-2.5 times cheaper than a year earlier. Overproduction. And I think that this will be the case next year,” says the president of the UPOA. However, the geography of berry exports this year will not change significantly, predicts Taras Bashtannik. “It (geography of exports - ed.), as it was for berries, 90% - the European Union, and 10%, and possibly 5% - the USA or Canada, has remained so. Maritime logistics are now very expensive. Therefore, berries are mainly a European Union market and a little domestic,” says the president of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association. Read also: The import of frozen raspberries ...

Source: Eastfruit