Cultivated mushrooms: lower supply, higher prices
Companies exporting fresh cultivated mushrooms signalled that there were less cultivations of these mushrooms and it resulted in lower supply. That’s why prices of cultivated mushrooms

Production of cherries: very bad year
For a few years Poland is the second important producer of sour cherries in the world (the first one is Russia). This year the profitability of the production of sour cherries was very low. At

Russian Minister of Agriculture in Poland
Russian Minister of Agriculture Aleksey Gordijew is visiting Poland. On a press conference which took place during the Polagra Food Fair in Poznań, the minister Gordijew announced the

Low profitability of aubergines production
This year purchase prices of aubergines in the area of Radom are exceptionally low. Last years many producers are moved from the production of sweet peppers to the production of aubergines because

Polish potatoes too expensive for Russia?
On Friday, August 8th price of potatoes intended for export was 0.15 EUR/kg. Russian recipients are expressing an interest in Polish potatoes, but it is only potential demand. According to

Export of cultivated mushrooms to Russia
Polish statistical CAAC and MF data shows that in spite of ‘embargo’ (actually import restriction), in 2007 export of Polish cultivated mushrooms to Russia amounted almost 11 thousand tons.

Great demand for cherries
Crop of cherries has lasted already for couple of weeks but supply of these fruit still does not meet the demand. Polish cherries are very popular abroad as well (among others in Russia). First

Polish sour cherries popular in Russia
Major part of Polish sour cherries are sold to the Eastern markets, mainly to Russia. In spite of bad crops in 2007 volumes of exported deep-freezing sour cherries (61 thousand tons) were only

Lower incomes from cherries export
Low crops of cherries in 2007 resulted in export decrease. In 2007 export amounted to only 2 000 tons and it was six times lower in comparison with that of 2006 which amounted to 12 000

Tomatoes trade stagnation
Warehouses of tomatoes producers are filling up with product and though prices are decreasing demand are not rising. On the Russian market domestic tomatoes appeared and prices deeply decreased.

Will casual labour from Ukraine come to Poland?
Last season for picking strawberries Polish producers paid 0.30 – 0.44 EUR/chip basket. On the well cultivated plantation, working 10-12 hours a day worker could get even 53 EUR. In Ukraine