December 12 2011, 12:24 Fruit-Inform

Fruit and vegetable prices stable for more than a month in Ukraine

Fruit-Inform's fruit and vegetable index shows that the value of Ukrainians' fruit and vegetable basket did not change last week. In such a way, as we forecast, fruit and vegetable prices have been almost stable for more than a month in Ukraine. Over the past 4 weeks, the basket's value increased only by 0.7%.

“Prices will be stable for about 2 weeks in the country, then a slight increase is possible due to New Year holidays”, Tetiana Getman, Head of Fruit-Inform, says. “At the same time, we forecast that a pre-New-Year increase of the fruit and vegetable basket's value will be one of the most insignificant in the past 10 years thanks to both households' low purchasing power and record high supply of fruits and vegetables in Ukraine”, Mrs. Getman continues.

Last week, a fast growth of greenhouse cucumber prices and a sharp fall of greenhouse tomato prices were simultaneously registered that enabled them to compensate each other. In addition, carrot prices slightly decreased in price, banana and orange prices were reduced more significantly.

We would remind you that more detailed information about Ukrainian and Russian fruit and vegetable markets is available for subscribers of Fruit-Inform Weekly service package.

The detailed Ukraine potato and vegetable price forecast for the next season will be presented at the Fourth International Conference “Potatoes and Vegetables of Ukraine – 2012”, Kiev, Ukraine, February 16, 2012.

Preliminary conference program, conditions of participation and application form will be available on Fruit-Inform web-site since December 16, 2011.

Additional 10% discount is granted to companies that confirm their participation via e-mail [email protected] till December 16, 2011.