Poland: prices of imported lettuces
On Thursday, April 16 on the wholesale market in Bronisze, the price of Iceberg lettuce imported from Spain was 28 PLN (6.51 euro)/10 pcs. The price of Lollo bionda and Lollo rosa imported from

Poland: import of carrot
This year in the spring the shortage of domestic carrot is supplemented with imported carrot. In January 2009 the import of carrot amounted to 1.5 thousand t at value 402 thousand euro.According

Poland: growing prices of Mutsu and Golden
The prices of apples Mutsu and Golden Delicious are increasing. These varieties are of great interest to the eastern recipients this season. On Wednesday, April 15 the price of Golden Delicious

Prices of bananas slightly decreased
On Tuesday, April 14 on the wholesale market the prices of bananas imported from Ecuador was lower than before Easter. The price was 95 PLN (21.79 euro)/18 kg i.e. by 5 PLN (1.15 euro) lower than

Chinese cabbage from Hungary
While the Polish Chinese cabbage is in demand from both domestic and foreign recipients, on the Polish market one can find Chinese cabbage imported from Hungary. On Friday, April 10 the price of

Poland: stable price of imported peppers
How we already informed on the Polish market the prices of most imported vegetables decreased. However prices of red pepper imported from Spain remain stable. The average price of pepper

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analysis (06-12.04.2009)
Before the Easter the price situation on the market of fresh fruit and vegetables was influenced, similarly as during the previous week, by decreasing supply of domestic last year’s crop

Poland: still high prices of broccoli
The prices of most imported vegetables decreased before Easter. However the prices of broccoli are an exception and they are remained at high level. On Thursday, 9 April on the wholesale market

Poland: the lack of Chinese cabbage of good quality
In cold stores it is not easy to find Chinese cabbage of good quality. Only such cabbage can withstand the transport so only such cabbage is in demand from foreign recipients The price for such a

Poland: the price of domestic cucumbers is still decreasing
The price of Polish greenhouse cucumbers decreases every week. On Wednesday, 8 April the price of long cucumbers was from 4.00 to 4.50 PLN (0.89-1.00 euro)/kg, but one could find the cucumbers at

Poland: fast decrease in prices of early cabbage
In the mid of March an early cabbage imported from Italy appeared on the Polish wholesale markets and its price was 5 - 5.50 PLN (1.10-1.22 euro)/pcs. But in the end of March the price of

Poland: prices of imported fruit
On Monday, 6 April on the wholesale market in Bronisze prices of imported fruit didn't differ markedly from the prices of last week. However one could observe increase in price of bananas from

Poland: growing prices of celeriac
The new week brought the next rise in prices of washed celeriac. On Monday, 6 April in the centre of Poland the price of celeriac of 1st class was to 2.20 PLN (0.50 euro)/kg. The average price

Poland: price of imported lettuces
On Wednesday, 1 April the price of imported butterhead lettuce was 35 PLN (7.78 euro)/16 pcs. zloty/carton and it increased from level 34 PLN (7.56 euro) week-on-week. The price of Iceberg

Poland: growing prices of carrot
As we have already informed the supply of Polish carrot i slow and its price is still growing. It also resulted in increasing prices of carrot imported from the Netherlands. On Wednesday, 1

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analysis (30.03-05.04.2009)
As regards price situation last week didn’t bring any surprises on the market of fresh fruit and vegetables. The most important factors which had the impact on prices of fruit and vegetables

Poland: increase in prices of Spanish broccoli
Lower supply of imported broccoli on the Polish market resulted in considerable increase in their prices. On Wednesday, 1 April on the wholesale market in Bronisze the price of broccoli imported

Poland: processing plants are waiting for spinach
Many processing plants are finishing the purchase of root vegetables and brassicas and they are preparing for the purchase of spinach. Last year the purchase of spinach in processing plants was

Poland: supply of last year’s Chinese cabbage will finish in mid of April
There are less and less of Chinese cabbage in cold stores. How we already informed, in mazowieckie province prices of Chinese cabbage are at the level 1.80 – 1.90 PLN (0.40-0.42 euro)/kg for

Ukraine: customs duty on apples rises
Since Friday, 6 March Ukraine raises the customs duty on apples. The duty will be at level 13%, but in April a next rise is expected. It will result in worsening the profitability of the export

Overview of Poland's Booming Food Processing Sector
6 Jan - The food processing and catering industries in Poland are increasingly interested in importing processed fruits and vegetables and baking ingredients such as baking mixes and fats. There

Bigger production of vegetable juices
According to the latest data of Polish Central Statistic Office (GUS) in September 2008 the production of single species vegetable juices much increased. In August the medium and large

Deep-frozen strawberries: worse results of the sale
The export of deep-frozen strawberries in the period January - April this year amounted to 20.8 thousand tons valued at 29.9 million EUR. In comparison with the previous year one sold about 13

Import of watermelons
In 2007 Poland bought 92.8 thousand ton of watermelons valued at 22.8 million EUR. Hungary was the largest supplier (35 %) of watermelons, then Italy (22 %) and Greece (10 %).This year since

Caned strawberries
Apart from deep-frozen and cooled strawberries Poland also exports canned strawberries. From 2003 till 2007 sales of these products increased over three times. According to data of CAAC - in