Cauliflowers in Poland are cheaper, but..

2021-02-16 12:46

Cauliflowers are one of the vegetables whose prices are highly correlated with the current weather. And as we are now in winter in Europe, their prices remain at a relatively high level. They are higher than in the same period last year.

In February 2020, the winter was mild but the spring was very cold and this caused the prices of imported cauliflowers at that time to spike in March. This trend was further supported by the above-average high demand associated with the outbreak of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe. As a result, between the beginning of March and the beginning of April, the price of imported cauliflowers rose by 167 percent.

Now, the cold winter in the northern part of the Old Continent has kept cauliflower prices fairly high and, above all, prevented them from falling. Such a fall is possible in winter when, with milder weather, the larger current production from France meets the abundant Italian and Spanish offerings on the market. This is not the case now. Cauliflowers have become more expensive even in southern Europe (e.g. at wholesale auctions in Spain last week from €0.20-0.35/unit to €0.25-0.40/unit).

Of course, prices in Spain are much lower than they were in mid-January, when the snowy Filomena raged over the Iberian Peninsula. Therefore also on our wholesale market, where Spanish imports dominate, prices, although not low as mentioned, are still lower than in January. Now calibers 6-8 are being offered on a larger scale in the wholesale trade at 4.00-7.00 PLN/unit, and not at 6.50-9.50 PLN/unit as back then.

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