Why imported bananas in Ukraine are cheaper than domestic fruits

Published Jul 9, 2020

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In early June, analysts of the fruit and vegetable market said that the cheapest and most affordable fruit this summer in Ukrainian markets and supermarkets are imported from distant seas imported bananas. Not traditional Melitopol cherries, Nikolaev apricots and Odessa peaches which our markets already abound at this time, and which in usual years on a pocket to each Ukrainian, and import bananas! Has nothing really grown on the fertile Ukrainian land this year?

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Or is the coronavirus pandemic and the global economic crisis to blame? It turns out that the rise in price of each of the favorite and children and adults of summer fruit is due to its factors. Apricots. Back in March, experts warned that bone crops would be tight this year. Spring frosts destroyed a significant part of the apricot crop, caused delays in fruit development and a delay of the crop of about half a month. The rise in price of each of the favorite summer fruits for both children and adults is explained by its factors. Therefore, Ukraine has increased purchases of these fruits in Turkey and Spain in advance, so that in the summer on our tables were at least imported apricots. Average prices for them - about sixty hryvnia per kilogram. The cost of domestic apricots still depends on the generosity of those lucky ones who managed to keep a few fruits on the branches. Peaches. Peach orchards in Ukraine are less affected by frost, as most of them are located in the southern ...

Source: Unian