While meat is becoming more expensive in Ukraine, domestic potatoes have become 30% cheaper over the year. Such conclusions were made by the specialists of Info-Shuvar, analyzing the data of daily monitoring of prices in the wholesale markets.
So, as of April 20, 2018, potatoes of the 2017 harvest are offered at the wholesale sites of Ukraine for UAH 3,8-4,5 / kg1, for large wholesale sellers agree to reduce the price by another 5-7%. At the wholesale market "Shuvar" in Lviv, potatoes are offered at 3,8-4,3 UAH / kg.
Sellers of the Stolichny market in Kiev set prices for potatoes at almost the same level - 4-4,5 UAH / kg. Over the entire storage period, Ukrainian potatoes became more expensive by only 5-7%, which actually means losses for resellers who bought potatoes in September 2017 with the aim of resale in the spring of 2018, the Segodnya newspaper notes.
“Most of these businessmen planned to start selling from storage in April, focusing on the scenario of the last season, then in April the price of potatoes began to grow rapidly and by the end of the month reached UAH 6 / kg. But this season, prices have been at a consistently low level, despite another decline in production space in the commercial sector. As it turned out, the decrease in plantations was fully compensated for by higher yields, besides, the population on their plots grew almost the same amount of potatoes as last year, ”analysts said.
Source: http://www.kazakh-zerno.kz/