Information for fruit and vegetables business in CIS
The season of mass sale of early potato started and caused the price decrease
Today on the wholesale market "Kopani", Kherson oblast, the supply of early potato of local production has increased. The supply growth led to the price decrease down to USD $ 2.97 that stimulated the interest from the side of the wholesale purchasers. We'd note the wholesale price on early potato on Kyiv wholesale market "Farmer" is USD $ 4.95/kg today, so the supplied of this commodity to Kyiv can be quite feasible.
In the whole we should mention that the trade volumes are increasing daily on "Kopani" market. To the expert's assessments, in the middle of May the market will be working at its full capacity.
We'd remind that traditionally "Kopani" market is the main indicator of the wholesale prices on fruit and vegetable commodities in Ukraine. Exactly because of this fact Agricultural Marketing Project has launched the system of daily monitoring of the wholesale prices on this market. The results of this activity are available on our site and will be online till the end of the season (middle November 2005).