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

In January, Poland received a real winter with temperatures below -10 degrees Celsius. But this did not affect the rising prices of domestic potatoes. They remained stable. Now it's warmer - the daytime temperature is hovering around zero degrees and synoptics are forecasting further warming. read more

The volume of onion exports from Poland in the 2020/2021 season (from August to November 2020) amounted to 49.34 thousand tonnes. This result is higher than that of the previous season, but only by 1,12 thousand tonnes, i.e. by 2,3 per cent. read more

The cumulative volume of apple exports in the 2020/2021 season (from July to November 2020) amounted to 180.77 thousand tonnes, according to the Central Statistical Office (CSO), and its value reached PLN 337.28 million. read more

In January 2019, we had a clear recovery in the wholesale red cabbage market. The demand side of this market became strongly active in the search for goods, and this triggered a dynamic increase in the price of this cabbage as early as the first week of 2019. read more

In winter, blueberries come to the European market, including Poland, from far away, which is a decisive factor for the prices of this fruit in our wholesale and retail. read more

Sales of Polish Gala apples abroad did not go well in the last month of 2020. Trade on the domestic market was also not impressive. read more

The supply of grapes on the Polish market is low and still falling, as stocks of grapes from southern Europe are running out, especially light grapes. read more

This season, unlike the previous one, there has been no improvement in celery prices at the Polish wholesale end of the old year. A year ago we saw an improvement, albeit small, in celery prices. read more

The prices of Chinese cabbage have strengthened considerably after the New Year. More and more information reaching the editors of fresh-market.pl confirm this observation. read more

The year 2020 ended for South American banana producers with higher export rates for this fruit compared to 2019. Also, more bananas from South and Central America went to Europe last year. read more

The beginning of 2021 looks much worse than the same period of 2020 in terms of leeks available on the Polish wholesale market. This can be seen in the prices of this vegetable. read more

In Central Europe we have either autumn rather than winter weather or, on the better days, almost spring. The situation is different in the south of the continent, particularly in Spain. read more

This season there was no increase in kiwi prices in the run-up to Christmas. On the contrary, wholesale prices for green kiwifruit fell by 9 per cent to 4.00-6.00 zloty/kg at the end of December. read more

White cabbage prices rebounded in the Polish wholesale market just before Christmas. But, as expected by the industry, this was a small and short-lived improvement. read more

Not much has happened on the Polish carrot market since the turn of September and October 2020, when wholesale prices of this vegetable fell by 29 percent. read more

In the first half of 2020, the price of lemons grew dynamically, but this trend did not start until the end of January and accelerated as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak spreading across Europe. read more

Prices for greenhouse cucumbers imported from Spain have jumped sharply. This is the result of the collapse of the weather on the Iberian Peninsula, through which the winter weather front Filomena - cold and snowy - is sweeping. read more