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Ukrainian apple growers to have more problems with sales in 2014
The forthcoming apple season may be one of the most difficult over the past few years in Ukraine.
Despite non-perfect weather conditions in spring, apple trees have quite well gone through the period that may result in apple production to hit a new high this year. In its turn, this means that Ukrainian farmers will have fewer opportunities to find new target markets for their produce.
For the present, almost all large fruit growers in Ukraine have had a successful experience in exporting apples to the Russian Federation, and it was exports that backed prices in the internal market. However, Ukraine has been gradually reducing exports over the past two seasons as competition in the Russian market has sharply grown after Russia's accession to the WTO, and Russia remains the main export market for Ukrainian apples.
Ukrainian apple exports totaled 50,000 tons in the season 2010/11. However, in the past season, Ukrainian exporters shipped no more than 9,000 tons of apples despite imports being 7 times as high.
Fruit-Inform analysts believe that Ukrainian growers will be able to raise exports in the new season only under conditions of a significant decrease in prices. Furthermore, prices will be under the pressure of at least two factors: record high production in Ukraine and high competition in the Russian market. In addition, apple imports may also grow in Ukraine as Poland has also faced a positive production outlook this year.
We would remind you that more detailed information about the Ukrainian apple sector developments and outlook will be presented at the 4th International Conference “Apple Business of Ukraine-2014”. The conference will be held on August 14-15, 2014, Feride Plaza, Vinnytsia, Ukraine. More detailed information about the event is available on the official web-site.
Would you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact International Relations Department of Fruit-Inform:
tel: +380 562 320795 (ext. - 341)
cell: +380 96 5836323 (Ievgen Kuzin)
e-mail: [email protected]