Prices for vegetables rise in Uzbekistan due to abnormal cold weather

Starting from January 10, 2023, anomalous cold weather for this region is observed in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In particular, as of January 13, 2023, in the capital of Uzbekistan, the air temperature is minus 13-15 degrees Celsius during the day, and up to minus 20 degrees at night. As EastFruit already wrote a week before the onset of these cold weather, amid problems with access to sufficient volumes of gas, a decrease in temperature in greenhouses can lead to an increase in plant diseases, a deterioration in product quality and a decrease in sample sizes. Project analysts predicted a possible increase in prices for greenhouse vegetables as a result of these cold weather. Over the past few days, vegetable prices in Uzbekistan have already reacted to abnormally low temperatures for this time of year. At the same time, not only greenhouse vegetables, but also other types of vegetables have risen in price, and to a greater extent than greenhouse ones. Compared with the price ...