Russia: carrot prices twice as high as last year

In the majority of cases, farmers offer carrots at RUB 20-25/kg (USD 0.27-0.34/kg). Some growers fix even higher prices. For comparison, a week before, carrots were shipped at no higher than RUB 22/kg (USD 0.34/kg).

Positive price performance is observed thanks to a rapid decrease in the domestic supply of carrots. Many farmers have already sold their stocks, and the majority of large farms ship carrots only in contracted volumes.

It should be noted that prices have been growing despite availability of large volumes of Ukrainian carrots shipped to Russia through Crimea.