Hungary: When bananas are cheaper than apples

게시됨 2021년 2월 25일

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The article explains the ongoing high prices of fruits in the market, which is expected to continue until September or May, depending on the availability of stored fruits. The increase in prices is attributed to significant crop losses due to spring frosts and heavy rainfall in June of the previous year, which resulted in a deficit in fruit production. The prices have doubled for apples since the record-setting 2018 harvest, leading to a 20-30% drop in demand. Other fruits like strawberries, cherries, apricots, and peaches also saw yield losses of 50-80%, resulting in prices that were one and a half to two times higher than average. The article also highlights Poland's role as Europe's largest apple producer and factors that could impact apple prices, such as crop prospects and weather conditions during flowering.

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Currently, just like in 2020, all fruits are expensive, and this will not change until May, but it may not necessarily change until September, Ferenc Apáti, the president of FruitVeB, told 10perc.hu. He cited the following as reasons for this: last year's spring frosts caused significant crop losses, as almost half of the expected crop was taken away. This was the extreme rainfall in June, which ruined a significant part of the remaining crop. we have already seen the trouble with apples, see our article: Apples: a third and a half of the crop was lost.) This, in turn, raised the already high prices to a greater extent than expected. Interestingly, there is no significant change in demand due to price fluctuations, which can show a 50 percent change depending on the yield of a given year. Today, eating apples costs twice as much in stores as after the record-breaking 2018 harvest, the expert recalled. This is already a price increase that has generated a 20-30 percent drop in ...

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