This week, prices for greenhouse tomatoes have increased in Ukraine, according to analysts of the EastFruit project. The reason for the increase in the cost of these products was the seasonal decline in the supply of local tomatoes in greenhouse plants, as most producers have already announced the completion of the current turnover of this crop.
Thus, today tomatoes are on sale at 80-90 UAH/kg ($1.92-2.16/kg), which is on average 13% more expensive than at the end of the previous working week. The newly formed prices for these products remain the highest in the domestic market of Ukraine, at least for the last 7 years!
According to the producers, the vegetable samples at the local stationary plants are currently small, which, in turn, allowed the sellers to raise prices for the available volumes of products. At the same time, traders have not yet been able to compensate for the insufficient supply of local tomatoes with imported products.
It is worth noting that currently the price of greenhouse tomatoes in Ukraine is already on average 49% higher than at the end of November 2023. As for further forecasts, market participants assume that the supply of tomatoes from Turkey will soon increase, and given that the sales season in Ukrainian plants is coming to an end, the main supply of greenhouse vegetables will be imported products.
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Source: https://east-fruit.com/novosti/v-ukraine-opyat-dorozhayut-pomidory/
