Interesting situation on the leek market
Last week, Dutch exporters offered leeks at the price of EUR 6.50 - 8.40 / kg. Of course, it influenced prices in Poland. Week ago leeks from Holland cost PLN 2.70 - 2.90 / kg. Now it's even PLN

Winter vegetable crisis in France
Cabbage production dropped by 35%, leeks by 30% and carrots by half, due to a mild, rainy winter. ''The fields were full of water which made it impossible to use the machines. We had to pick the

Leeks cheap as never before
There are no changes in prices of leeks on the Polish market. It concerns Polish vegetables and imported from Holland and Belgium. Polish, good quality leeks cost 1.60 - 1.80 PLN/kg. Prices were

No place for imported leeks
Leeks imported from Belgium and Holland are expensive in relation to Polish ones. Situation will change as soon as cold winter come. The weather in Poland is warm and Polish leeks are of good

Leeks from import
Then there was a downward price correction, but it was evident that in general prices in the next few weeks will be very high. The forecasts confirmed at all. Belgian and Dutch prices

Imported leeks are getting more expensive
Leeks in Belgium, Holland and France are expensive. It is caused by very low supply of good quality leeks (good enough to export). It is almost end of season because of such small amoun of this

High demand for good quality leeks
Moreover the quality of leeks was also influenced by unfavourable weather during growth of the vegetables. A wholesale price of good quality leeks is 1.80-2.10 PLN (0.40-0.47 euro)/kg and the

Bigger supply of domestic leeks
It was caused by better price which reached 1.60-1.80 PLN (0.36-0.40 euro)/kg for good quality product. However bigger supply caused in consequence that prices started decreasing in some region

Bigger supply of domestic leeks
Price of good quality product  is 1.70-2.00 PLN (0.38-0.44 euro)/kg. Price of imported leeks is similar - 1.80-2.00 PLN (0.40-0.44 euro)/kg. Price of Polish leeks of poor quality is

Low prices of domestic leeks
At the moment price of leeks is 1.00-1.20 PLN (0.23-0.27 euro)/kg(poor quality product even 0.80 PLN (0.18 euro)/kg). Price of high quality product is 1.60-1.70 PLN (0.36-0.39 euro)/kg. Price

Low prices of leeks
Additionally quality of Polish leeks is poor. The current producer price of leeks is 0.80-1.00 PLN (0.18-0.23 euro)/kg. As a result a lot of producers do not want to sell their product at the

Low demand for leeks
Demand for domestic leeks of the new crop is low. One of the reasons is still high supply of imported leeks. Product imported e.g. from France has good appearance and quality and it is

Low prices of imported leeks
Prices of leeks imported from Belgium and France are unusually low this season. And their price decreased again. The reason of such low prices is relatively high supply. Last week the price of

Imported leeks are getting more expensive
Last week we informed abort decrease in prices of leeks imported form France and Belgium. Their prices fell to 3.50 PLN (0.89 euro)/kg.  In consequence prices of Turkish and Polish leeks

Decrease in prices of leeks
Prices of leeks imported from France, Belgium and Holland has decreased by about 30 % recently from 40-50 PLN (10.31-12.89 euro)/10 kg to 35-38 PLN (9.02-9.79 euro)/10 kg. Such price’s level

Lower supply of domestic leeks
The supply of domestic leeks is still low. And many trading companies have problems with collecting this vegetable. Some of them stopped even the purchase and they withdrew their offer of leeks.

High prices of leeks
The price of domestic leeks reached such level that import of this vegetable can be profitable, especially if trading companies order big deliveries. At the moment on the Polish market there are

Leeks- higher supply did not stop price increase
The supply of leeks increased last days. However higher supply did not stop increase in their prices. On Tuesday, price of domestic leeks was from 2.20-2.50 PLN (0.55-0.62 euro)/kg to 2.50-3.00

High prices of imported leeks
Prices of imported leeks increased last days due to higher prices in Holland but also due to low quality of domestic product what influence demand for imported product. On Thursday, December 2,

Low supply of domestic leeks
Although this is only half of November, the supply of leeks imported form Belgium is relatively large. This Belgium vegetable usually appear on our market just before Christmas. # # # It is due to

Moscow: prices of Dutch vegetables
Last week in Moscow, after short period of increasing prices, sweet peppers imported from Holland, became cheaper again. Price of red pepper fell from 100-110 rubles (2.40-2.64 euro) to 80-90

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analysis (12.07 – 16.07.2010) – vegetables
In week 28 market one could still observe low supply of some vegetables (cabbage, cauliflowers, broccoli) and generally high prices. The supply of Chinese cabbage is also low however the situation

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analysis (07.06 – 11.06.2010) - vegetables
The second week of June brought an improvement in the weather. There were more sunny days . It resulted in clear increase in the supply of vegetables, but at the end of the week hot weather

Moscow: prices of eggplants and leeks
Last week in Moscow the rise in prices was recorded for leeks and eggplant from Holland and Belgium. The reason for this phenomenon was a temporary decline in commodity supply in Moscow. The

Moscow: an analysis of prices freshmarket.ru (03.05. - 09.05.2010)
In general, at the capital's wholesale It was connected with a gradual increase in the volume of deliveries of products new harvest in Moscow. The analyzed week has started with the reduction of