According to the daily market monitoring of the EastFruit project, prices for new potatoes in Ukraine are declining this week. According to the local potato growers, the main reason for the price decline is the weather improvement and the resumption of harvesting in most regions of the country.
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In EastFruit detailed raspberry market review for Ukraine, Serbia, Poland and Moldova, we concluded that raspberry prices, despite their shockingly low level for farmers, most likely have not yet reached their bottom. On the weekend of July 01-02, 2023, we continued receiving confirmations that
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From June 20 to 21, Yu Jianhua, the head of China’s General Administration of Customs, visited Poland, where the two sides signed a phytosanitary protocol for the export of fresh blueberries from Poland to China. On June 28, the GACC formally announced via its website that fresh Polish
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Georgian greenhouse has found a very strong demand for bioproducts in Georgia. This means that the company has to delay exporting and focus on the local market. EastFruit reports based on BM.ge (GE). read more

The supply of domestic early onions is currently much higher than the demand, reports EastFruit. Thus, a seasonal rise in the supply forces Ukrainian farmers to actively reduce their prices for the 2023 harvest of onions. read more

Swiss agrivoltaic systems developer Insolight installed agrivoltaic system “insolagrin” at bioschmid GmbH in the canton of Lucerne, reports EastFruit referring to Freshplaza.com. read more

According to EastFruit analysts, there are several factors that will have a decisive influence on the Moldovan sweet cherry market in 2023. read more

According to EastFruit analysts, farmers in Poland on June 29, 2023 blocked the first raspberry freezing enterprise in response to what they consider to be unsatisfactory prices for raspberries offered by processors. We are talking about the purchase price of 5 zł per kg, which is equivalent to
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A trio of roboticists at CREATE Lab, EPFL, in Switzerland, has designed, built and tested a robot that can pick raspberries. In their project, reported in the journal Communications Engineering, Kai Junge, Catarina Pires and Josie Hughes designed and tested their robot based on a new idea to
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Peach and nectarine export season from Georgia is becoming increasingly active. A representative of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia toldEastFruit that at the beginning of the week export supporting group, assisting farmers in issuing phytosanitary and custom
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It is not customary to talk about this, but Polish fruit growers, on the one hand, demand to ban raspberry imports from Ukraine, but at the same time, they do not want Ukraine to ban imports of Polish fruits and other food products. At the time of signing the Association Agreement with the EU,
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The new raspberry season in Eastern Europe has just started but is already making headlines. Farmers are shocked by low prices, call for boycotts of freezing factories, import bans and for the government help, and share angry comments in social media. read more

Morocco has been increasing its asparagus exports over the past five years, and their volumes have more than doubled, as reported byEastFruit. For three marketing years in a row, Morocco was shipping asparagus only to Spain. However, since the MY 2021/22, Moroccan exporters have expanded their
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EastFruit analysts draw attention to an extremely important apple industry development, which that took place after the meeting between US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 22, 2023. During the meeting, the leaders of the two countries agreed to eliminate the
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Egypt continues to hold the position of the second biggest supplier of sweet potatoes to the Dutch market, as reported by EastFruit. In addition, unlike many other supplying countries, Egypt has been increasing its sweet potato exports to the Netherlands year by year. read more

India imports about 300 thousand tons of fresh apples annually read more

EastFruit experts have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that Uzbekistan, despite being a large exporter of fruits and vegetables, completely missed the key trend in the global fruit market – the rapid growth in consumption and trade of berries. Since berries are among the most
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This week Ukrainian farmers have shipped their first relatively large batches of red- and blackcurrants, as reported by EastFruit. Despite rather long and cold spring, the current season started at the same time as last year. read more

We are nearing the end of the 22-23 apple season, andEastFruit analysts look at Georgia’s trade statistics. Apple export volumes and prices in US Dollars are quite similar to numbers from the previous season. This is not necessarily an underperformance – on the contrary, the 21-22 season was
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