​In the passing week, the price monitoring of the fresh-market.pl portal recorded a slight strengthening of red cabbage prices, when it comes to trade in the big wholesale. The change was of a limited character, as it was +6 per cent upwards. read more

The second half of January brought some improvement in the supply of imported highbush blueberries available on the Polish market. This refers mainly to the retail offer available via commercial chains. read more

The past few seasons have not been easy for Polish growers of Red Jonaprince apples. And it did not depend on the size of the harvest of this variety and of apples in general. Of course, supply had an impact on prices, but both when prices were low and when they were high, producers of the popular "Prince" had to face the challenges of storing this variety. read more

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We analyse the CSO data for the whole year 2020 and the production of frozen vegetables and fruit and vegetable juices as well as vegetable pickles. In this period, we can see a decrease in the production sector of juices, frozen vegetables and especially frozen fruits in relation to 2019. Only in the category of vegetable pickles the CSO recorded a year-on-year increase in production. read more

After a more pronounced improvement of onion prices in the Polish wholesale (almost by one third), which took place in November last year, we had to wait until January this year for another change in plus. However, it was not so impressive as prices of bagged onion increased only by less than 6 per cent on average. read more

January brought an increase in carrot prices in the Polish wholesale trade. To be more precise, this trend was initiated at the beginning of the second week of this month, after the end of a period in which trade was interrupted by successive holidays. read more

Citrus growers' and exporters' hopes that the second wave of the pandemic would bring a repeat of demand and prices for lemons from last spring have proved to be dashed. Demand for this fruit (and other citrus) remains good, but not so good as to repeat the price increases as occurred in late winter and spring last year. read more

Two years ago, January brought a sharp increase in the price of savoy cabbage at the large wholesaler. For January2019, the average selling price of this cabbage increased by almost 64 per cent to 2.70 zloty/kg. A year ago this was much weaker, but still in January2020 the average price maintained a good level of 1.90 PLN/kg, rising to 2.00 PLN/kg at the very end of the month. read more

Time does not stand still, and although the Polish apple market is only at the beginning of the second half of the marketing season, producers of this fruit are already analysing the opportunities and risks of the next season. And there are indications that this season will not be easy. read more

The second half of this month brought an improvement in the prices of white cabbage on the Polish wholesale market. However, this was not a large improvement and the situation of Polish producers of this vegetable has improved little overall. read more

The high prices in the parsley market two years ago will not be repeated soon. That season was unique in decades. Now parsley is much cheaper, but this does not mean that wholesale prices are particularly low. This can be seen in our graph below. read more

There was a lot going on in the Polish orange market in 2020. We have had two waves of large price increases for these fruit - one pandemic in March and April and another in June, which came after a temporary price "thaw". read more

The season of imported strawberries is developing on the Polish market despite some adversities. Last week, the supply of strawberries in the Polish wholesale grew enough for this to be reflected in prices. read more

Aubergines have almost disappeared from the offer of Polish importers. It is difficult to get them at wholesale and there is a shortage of these vegetables on shop shelves. read more

The situation on the wholesale apple market in Poland has been relatively stable in recent weeks. Now, it seems, the possibility of an increase in Polish dessert apple prices is beginning to emerge. This is largely due to exports. read more

There is a revival on the Chinese cabbage market. Demand has strengthened and prices have followed suit. The development of the price trend is almost an exact copy of what happened five years ago, in the 2015/2016 season. read more

In winter, the pace of buying apples for processing slows down for obvious reasons. Even if the winter turns out to be mild, the technological challenges during this period increase and many factories, especially smaller ones, stop work. This is also the case this season. read more

The 2020 potato harvest is expected to be around 9 million tonnes. This marks a return to relatively high levels, especially after the previous year's collapse when Polish potato production fell to just 6.6 million tonnes. read more

The Christmas peak in citrus demand is behind us. Anyway, this season, due to the pandemic and its impact on trade and people's behaviour, the demand was lower than expected. read more