Ukraine: The export of apples should be completed by April, the expert said

Published 2023년 2월 24일

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Experts predict that apple prices in the first half of the year will increase due to a decrease in supply, assuming the rise will cover storage costs. Ukrainian apple producers have until April to make export sales. Afterwards, prices are expected to drop with the arrival of apples from the southern hemisphere. The domestic market will be the only hope for producers once southern hemisphere apples are available. The article also highlights the economic benefits of evenly distributing apple sales throughout the season rather than storing them until the end of the season.

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Theoretically, the prices of apples should increase during the first half of the year, experts believe, because there is a classic relationship: the fewer the leftovers, the higher the price. The only question is whether such growth will cover storage costs. Ukrainian apple producers have time for successful export sales until April, warns the head of the USPA Fruit company Volodymyr Gurzhii in the article of the magazine "Gardening in Ukrainian". Then an apple from the southern hemisphere will appear, prices should drop, and then producers will have hope only for the domestic market, the expert explains, and, in his opinion, there are many conditions for such a forecast. "We have to rely primarily on the volumes of apples that remain in Europe, and no one knows how both Ukrainian and European producers will behave," says Gurzhii. - Because today the main driving factor for the activation of sales is the war and ...

Source: Agrotimes