In Ukraine, prices for potatoes have started to gradually decline, analysts of the EastFruit project report. It should be noted that a week earlier sellers managed to keep selling prices at a fairly high level, but the activity of trade gradually decreased. It became obvious to producers that at the established price level it will be extremely difficult to realize the volumes of potatoes, especially those that are not suitable for further storage, before the onset of frost. As a result, most of them by the middle of this week began to synchronously reduce selling prices, trying to revive the interest of wholesalers to their goods.
Thus, at the moment farmers in the main regions of production are ready to ship quality potatoes at 18-28 UAH/kg ($0.43-0.68/kg), depending on the volume and quality of products offered, which is on average 10% cheaper than at the end of last week.
At the same time, wholesale companies, many of which succumbed to the hype in this segment, and having in stock volumes of expensive potatoes purchased on the external market earlier, are currently selling excessive quantities at a loss.
At the same time, owners of quality potatoes today prefer not to hurry with the realization of available volumes of their products, waiting for the improvement of the price situation in the market. It should be added that under the current conditions, potato prices in the Ukrainian market at the moment are still on average 2.3 times higher than in early November last year.
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