August 26 2011, 10:44 Fruit-Inform

Russian market impacted by Chinese and Belarusian cucumbers

According to Fruit-Inform Project, the Russian market for cucumbers is significantly impacted by availability of Chinese and Belarusian produce of the second harvest this week. Due to such a fact, sales of domestic cucumbers became slower that made many producers to agree to reduce prices.

We would remind you that more detailed information about the weekly price situation in the Russian and Ukrainian markets for fruits and vegetables, the history of prices over last 5 years and forecasts of their changes as well as full production, import and export statistics is available for subscribers of Fruit-Inform Weekly. Also the detailed fresh produce production, trade and price forecast for Russia will be presented during the Fourth International Conference “Fruit & Vegetable Business of Russia – 2011”. The event will take place in conjunction with World Food Moscow, September 14, 2011. Registration of the conference participants is currently in active progress.