Information for fruit and vegetables business in CIS
Another slight increase in Ukrainian fresh produce price index
Fruit-Inform Ukrainian fresh produce price index went up by 0.1% in the week from March 1st to 7th, after a similar increase a week before. In such a way, the price index has been increasing for the seventh week in a row, and current prices are averagely 11.9% higher.
“Fruit and vegetable prices changed slightly last week thanks to stabilization of the Ukrainian hryvnia exchange rate and an increase in internal demand”, says Ms. Tetiana Getman, Head of Fruit-Inform. “Tense situation in Crimea also had no impact on the fruit and vegetable market, while Crimean growers, nevertheless, said of some problems with sales of their products”.
Onions were the only fresh produce category, which became significantly more expensive last week: onion prices grew by 10%. Prices of imported vegetables were stable in the majority of cases. Banana prices went up by 3.7%.
We would remind you that more detailed information about current developments in the Russian and Ukrainian fruit and vegetable market is available for the subscribers of Fruit-Inform service packages.