Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analysis (15-21.06.2009)
In the third week of June prices of fresh fruit and vegetables didn't change much. Only prices of tomatoes decreased considerably and on the contrary prices of apples increased much. The stocks

Poland: low prices of strawberries will affect production next years
Despite the unfavourable weather and lower supply of strawberries processing plants are buying strawberries at much lower prices than last year and additionally they are limiting the amount of

Poland: prices of strawberries
On Wednesday, June 10 the weather didn’t improve much. Water on strawberries plantations made the harvest difficult and adversely affected the quality of fruits. The prices didn’t also

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analysis (01-07.06.2009)
In the first week of June the weather was the most crucial factor having the impact on prices of fruit and vegetables. Long lasting rainfalls and cold weather adversely affected the growth of many

Poland: decreasing demand for strawberries
The cold weather at the beginning of June resulted in decreasing demand for dessert strawberries. In hot days the demand for strawberries would be much higher. Moreover the rainy weather

Poland: heavy rain and hail damaged cultivations of strawberries
Cultivations of strawberries were adversely affected by heavy rain and hail last weekend. It resulted in damaged fruits and serious flooding of some plantations what can cause in consequence

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analysis (18-24.05.2009)
In the third week of May prices of apples intended for export remained stable. The average price of red varieties 70 + (including cartons) was 1.70 PLN (0.39 euro)/kg; the average price of Idared

Poland: strawberries season has already started
At the moment mainly growing under protections, but there are more and more of domestic strawberries on the market. However in many cases the quality is not very satisfied especially regards the

Poland: imported strawberries are still dominating on the market
There's still some time to the first crop of Polish strawberries. There is considerable uncertainty about the prices in the coming season amongst producers. The producers and traders agree that

Weak Polish Zloty hits wholesale market in Lodz
4,8 PLN for 1 Euro causes uncertainity in imported fruits and vegetables trade. Since last summer, the Polish currency have recorded a devaluation of 30% against the Euro currency. Raising prices

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analysis (26.01-01.02.2009)
The last week of January passed. Average prices both apples and domestic vegetables remained rather stable. Fluctuation in prices was minimal (1-3 %) and resulted from changing lower or upper

Lower supply of Spanish mandarins
On the Polish market the supply of Spanish mandarins is too small to meet the demand. As a result of this importers of citruses don't have a problem with finding recipients, which buy even

Overview of Poland's Booming Food Processing Sector
6 Jan - The food processing and catering industries in Poland are increasingly interested in importing processed fruits and vegetables and baking ingredients such as baking mixes and fats. There

Strawberry jam more expensive
Even though in 2008 the purchase prices of berry fruit were lower than in 2007, the prices of preserves of these fruits increased. It was probably caused by higher production costs. For example

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analyse (22.12.2008 – 04.01.2009)
During the last decade of December, pre-Christmas period was of course the most important for trade. In 2008, differently than usually, before Christmas there was not a big increase of sales of

Bigger export of plums
This year’s twice higher harvests of plums (104 thousand t) resulted in the appreciable increase of the export of these fruits. Additionally the demand from recipients in Germany was higher

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analyse (24-30.11.2008)
The recent week of November on the market of fruits and vegetables didn't differ from the rest of the month. In mazowieckie province the purchase prices of industrial apples remained fixed: 0.026

Higher import of southern fruit
According to the newest forecasts of IERiGŻ-PIB much higher import of almost all southern fruit is expected in season 2008/2009 (mainly citrus fruit, kiwi fruit, watermelon and grapes). Prices

Stable prices of pears
On Wednesday, October 22nd prices of pears of Lucas variety were at the level of 0.51 - 0.54 euro/kg (package included), Conference variety 0.57 euro/kg (also with the package). Such price level

The end of the season for industrial plums
This year twice higher harvests of plums (104 thousand t according to GUS) than in 2007 had to result in the decline in prices of these fruits. The average price of plums bought for freezing was

Value of exported deep-frozen strawberries
According to Foreign Agricultural Markets Monitoring Unit (FAMMU/FAPA), this year's value of export of deep-frozen strawberries, in the period January – June, was higher by 10% than last year,

Production of cherries: high level of risk
Fruit growers producing cherries of at least 25 mm in diameter achieve the biggest profits. Price of cherries of smaller size are much lower. The highest prices growers obtained for cherries of

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analyse (1-7.09.08)
In the first week of September on the market of fruit and vegetables there weren’t the significant fluctuations in prices. A turning point in the dispute over purchase prices of apples for

Two low consumption of apples in Poland
Consumption of apples in Poland, even though quite high (about 20 kg/person), is much lower than e.g. in Germany (25-30 kg/person) or in the Netherlands (about 35 kg/person). For reaching the

Purchase of blackberries
In lubelskie province cultivated blackberries are being purchased. Purchase prices of blackberries of variety Orkan delivered to the plant was 0.42 EUR/kg and price of blackberries of variety