Ukraine: prices for traditional vegetables 5 times as low as last year

Fruit-Inform's fruit and vegetable index shows that prices for traditional vegetables decreased 5 times year-on-year. Prices for white cabbages are 11 times as low as last year, prices for onions – 5.5 times. Carrots and red beets are averagely 2-3 times less expensive year-on-year. Potato prices are 4 times as low as in the last ten days of January 2011.

In such a way, Fruit-Inform's forecasts of the Ukrainian potato and vegetable market situation development are fully corroborated.

The first fundamental production and price forecast for the year 2012 (preliminary forecast was presented at in December 2011) will be presented at the 4th International Conference “Potatoes and Vegetables of Ukraine – 2012”, President Hotel, Kiev, Ukraine, February 16-17, 2012.

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