Information for fruit and vegetables business in CIS
Kazakhstan: apple prices up year-on-year
Apple prices in Kazakhstan have grown by 15-20% year-on-year, according to Fruit-Inform.
Now farmers ship their apples at KZT 250-300/kg (EUR 0.81-0.97/kg) against KZT 220-250/kg a year before. A year-on-year increase in prices is connected with the devaluation of the national currency in Kazakhstan and relatively high prices in supplying countries.
Fruit-Inform analysts say that the Kazakh apple market seriously depends on imports despite rather rapid increase in domestic production. About 80% of the demand for fresh apples are covered by imported produce with Poland as the main supplier.
Kazakhstan imports rather high volumes of apples even during active domestic harvesting campaign: the country annually imports 20,000-25,000 tons of apples in September-October, about 15% of total annually imported volumes.
The market experts expect a further increase in apple prices in Kazakhstan with the price growth peaking in November-December: as a rule, prices of fresh apples grow by another 15-20% in that period.
More detailed information about the Eastern European market for fresh and processing apples is available in the fundamental study «Apple Business in Ukraine, Russia & Kazakhstan — 2015: Present Situation and Prospects in Growing, Storage, Handling, Processing and Marketing». To learn more about it, please contact International Relations Department of Fruit-Inform:
tel: +380 562 320795 (ext. - 341)
cell: +380 96 5836323 (Ievgen Kuzin)