The organic sector in Poland
The development of organic agriculture in Poland is considered to be very important since it will provide new jobs, encourage the development of rural areas and foster the protection of the

Big chill causing major headaches
Unusually heavy snowfall has led to disruption for a number of transport and logistics operators as well as fresh produce traders.Major snowfall and extremely low temperatures across Europe have

Overripe industrial apples
This year some fruit growers were keeping the apples on the trees too long and a lot of apples are overripe. The processing plants in some areas are complaining about the poor quality of apples.

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analyse (3.-9.11.2008)
On the market of fresh fruit and vegetables prices still remain stable. The first week of November didn't see great changes.The average prices of industrial apples were staying at level 0.027

The end of apples harvest
This year's apple harvests are slowly approaching the end. The weather was favourable for fruit growers and the crops are good. But unfortunately prices of apples are very low in this season.

Apple growers are afraid of this season
The situation on the market of eating apples one can describe most briefly this way: many apples, the small demand. Prices of apples of 7+ size intended for export are beginning from 0.14 EUR/kg.

When the prices of apples will be stable?
This year season for desert apples is untypical. Quite a lot of varieties were ripen in the same time and now quite a lot of apples are falling down the trees. According to the fruit growers the

Production of Polish apples
The average annual yield of apples in Poland amounts to 2-2.4 million ton, including 1.9-2.2 million ton in orchards producing apples for selling. At average harvests of 2.3 million ton (in 2008

Low quality of fruit – low competitiveness
On the Polish market a share of domestic fruit of the low-quality is still too high. One can assessed that 500-600 thousand ton of fruit, i.e. only 16-19 % of total amount of fruit meet the high

First reactions of fruit growers to the agreement on prices of apples for processing
Disappointment. This way most briefly one can describe reactions of apples producers to the news, that The Association of Polish Fruit - Growers and representatives of a few processing plants

Apples for processing but not for juice concentrate
The majority of processing plants don’t purchase apples for juice concentrate. However they buy apples for the production of purées and for roasting. In małopolskie province price of apples

More apples in The Czech Republic
Forecasts of apples harvests in the Czech Republic shows the rise in the production of apples by 27 % in 2008. The apples crops are estimated at 144 thousand ton. Rise in harvests is a result of

Environment-friendly attitude of Polish fruit growers
According to Polish Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture environment-friendly attitude of Polish fruit growers increases. The method of the Integrated Fruit Production (IPO) is applied

Production of apples in Hungary
According to forecast crops of apples in Hungary in 2008 will amount to 525 thousand ton, over 2.5 times more than last year, which was disastrous as regards apples harvests in a few European

Very low profitability of apples production
According to the newest data from IERiGŻ-PIB this year profitability of apples production will be dramatically low. Forecast shows that the index of production profitability (producer

Hungary: problems with apples for processing
Not only Polish producers have every year problems with purchase prices of apples for processing. Producers of apples in Hungary appealed to the government to take action to improve their

Apples are going down
In the area of Grójec purchase price of apples of Paula Red variety (1st class, size 70 mm) bought by trading companies is about 0.21 EUR/kg and prices of the same variety (size 60 mm) is 0.18

Production cost of apples
The forecast of production costs of apples prepared by IAFE-NRI (ZEO-IERiGŻ-PIB) shows these costs will be at level of 0.22 – 0.25 EUR/kg (or 6 106 – 6 509 EUR/ha). Production costs at

Production cost of apples
The forecast of production costs of apples prepared by IAFE-NRI (ZEO-IERiGŻ-PIB) shows these costs will be at level of 0.22 – 0.25 EUR/kg (or 6 106 – 6 509 EUR/ha). Production costs at

Idared still the most popular
According to GUS (Central Statistical Office) Idared is still the most popular variety among all varieties of apples growing in domestic orchards but its importance is going down to the benefit of

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analyse
Last week price of domestic greenhouse tomatoes increased and production was insufficient. However on 16th May price deeply decreased and further decrease is expected.Big supply of early cabbages

Decline in prices of apples for processing
At the beginning of April production plants were buying apples for juice concentrate purpose at price 0.45 PLN/kg. During last month price decreased to 0.30 PLN/kg and in some areas even to 0.25