Information for fruit and vegetables business in CIS
Cucumber prices continue actively growing in Crimea
Cucumber prices have been rapidly growing in the Crimean peninsula. According to Fruit-Inform, they have grown by another 15% in Crimea over the past weekend.
Sellers have also managed to averagely triple their prices over a week. For the present, wholesale prices of long smooth cucumbers vary between RUB 30-40/kg (USD 0.45-0.60/kg), and gherkins are offered at RUB 50-60/kg (USD 0.75-0.89/kg), depending on quality.
The Crimean market participants connect the price growth with significantly lower supply of produce in the local market, as farms' outputs have considerably fallen due to cold and rainy weather conditions.
It should be noted that current prices of long smooth cucumbers are already 2.5-2.7 times as high as registered at Crimean wholesale markets a year before. Prices of gherkins have grown averagely 3.3 times year-on-year. However, growers expect the market situation to sharply change in the nearest days due to improved weather conditions' positive impact on summer greenhouses' outputs.