Ukraine: cabbage prices up
During the current week a rise of prices resumed at the cabbage market. According to"Fruit-inform.com", currently wholesale cabbage parcels are offered for sale at the rate of 1-3 UAH/kg. Minimum prices of 1-1,2 UAH/kg are registered in the southern regions of the country, where during the last week sales were conducted at the rate of 0,6-0,9 UAH/kg. In the central regions wholesale cabbage prices went up to 1,2-1,8 UAH/kg, in the eastern regions producers declare prices at the rate of 1,5-2 UAH/kg, and in the western regions prices amount to 2-3 UAH/kg.
Market participants connect jump in prices with the beginning of shoulder season, when medium varieties of cabbage gradually leave the market, and harvesting of late varieties is planned to start in the last week of August. However, producers think that prices should not be hoped to decrease in the early autumn. A little recession may be in the beginning of the harvesting campaign, but then prices will only increase. The case is that nowadays market participants are already concerned with prospects of cabbage harvest. Due to heat and drought, forming of heads is practically stopped; besides this, cabbage began to suffer from wizen and diseases. Those farms, that have already started harvesting of late varieties, complain of low-quality of cabbage which weight is often less than 1 kg.
One more factor of cabbage prices increase will be its production fall in neighbouring Poland, that traditionally is a major cabbage supplier to the Ukrainian market during hard years. At the current day Polish experts already say of gross harvest decrease by 12%, and in prospect this forecast will be revised towards lowering.
Information about Ukraine's cabbage market situation and factors to affect pricing till the beginning of the next season is available in the newly completed study: “Vegetable and fruit market of Ukraine – 2010: the season results and the next season forecasts . All companies, that have already bought the study, in 10 days will receive the renewed main vegetable and fruit varieties market forecast including extreme weather conditions impact of the current season.