Information for fruit and vegetables business in CIS
Crimean farmers forced to intensify vegetable sales due to electricity problems
Regular power outages in Crimea negatively affect the quality of fruits and vegetables in storage, according to Fruit-Inform.
Crimean farms say of broken temperature conditions in storage facilities due to power outages; therefore, the quality of produce has started sharply worsening.
«Power outages are registered every day, and they often are off-schedule», comments a Crimean grower. «As a result, we are unable to meet temperature conditions in storehouses and have already observed worsened quality of our produce».
Farmers expect to intensify their sales in the nearest time; therefore, the local fruit and vegetable season will most likely end earlier than planned before.
Fruit-Inform analysts have already started observing such a situation in the Crimean carrot segment. Farmers have intensified their carrot sales this week in view of rapidly worsening quality of their stocks. As a result, carrot prices have fallen by almost 10% in Crimea since the beginning of this week.