Sandomierski Ogrodniczy Rynek Hurtowy supports local growers
Sandomierski Ogrodniczy Rynek Hurtowy organises selling space for local growers.Open air vendors welcome small retailers as well as consumers. Moreover company represents producers in

Apples – export at record level?
One couldn't see such queues of lorries to Customs Offices for a long time. More and more apples are exported to the East but the prices remain stable at low level. However the growing 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

Increasing prices of imported tomatoes
The price of tomatoes imported from Spain is growing. On Wednesday, 17th December price of GG tomatoes was 9.07 – 9.31 euro/box of 6 kg and was higher than the price from the beginning of week

Hypermarkets exploit the situation of fruit and vegetables overproduction
Thanks to the favourable weather in this season, on the market there are a lot of domestic root vegetables and brassica. The supply is so big that suppliers have problems with selling. The

Lower export of vegetables to Czech and Slovakia
According to traders who export fresh fruit and vegetables to the Czech and Slovakia the situation in export is rather bad. At the moment the demand from Czech and Slovak importers is quite

Chinese cabbage is still very cheap
Prices of the Chinese cabbage have been staying at the low level for a long time and the downward trend didn't still end. On Thursday, 20th November the prices of Chinese cabbage in the central

Problems with the export to the eastern markets
Low prices and the great competition from neighbouring countries cause that it is very difficult to sell the products on eastern markets. Polish products have to compete in Russia with

Dutch onion better for peeling
Food processing industry thinks that Polish onion is of poorer quality this year, particularly as regards the size. The summer drought caused that onion was small. Onion for peeling should have

Prices of garlic
In mazowieckie province the purchase prices of garlic are following: 1.20 euro/kg or 0.134 -0.160 euro/bulb (class extra, in strings). Wholesale selling prices of garlic in the same province are

Good price for leeks of high quality
There are very small quantities of high quality leeks on the market and as a result their prices are good. The producers have no trouble with selling, even if they demand 0.53 euro/kg of leeks

Cauliflowers: big supply, poor quality
This year's season of the harvest of cauliflowers will last about one month. As a result of good weather in October there are a lot of cauliflowers on the market and their prices are low - from

Peppers: more imported, price of domestic one is going up
Since the season of domestic pepper is ending, companies which so far bought the domestic pepper for supplying retail shops, started selling imported pepper. However purchase prices of domestic

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analyse (27-31.10.2008)
The last week of October passed and significant price movements didn't appear on fruit and vegetables market. The purchase prices of industrial apples stayed at the low level. Depending on the

Further decline in prices of tomatoes
Wednesday, October 29th was the next day, when prices of tomatoes were decreasing. Prices of tomatoes of A size were from 3.86 euro/box of 6 kg and prices of tomatoes of BB size were from 4.41

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.

Industrial apples: prices the lowest on record
In many purchasing centres the price of industrial apples dropped to 0.022 EUR/kg. In spite of such low price a lot of growers sell apples and some of processing plants already stopped the

Apples for processing: the queues in front of purchasing centres
October began and price of industrial apples 0.08 EUR/kg which was agreed after blockades of processing plants is not in force any more. Purchase prices of apples delivered to the plant

Low prices of dessert apples
In the first days of October prices of desert apples cause the sleepless nights of fruit growers. On Thursday, October 2nd the price of Cortland and Lobo varieties of 7+ size was 0.20 - 0.22

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

Decline in profitability of fruit production
The decline in profitability of fruit production have been lasting from 70’s. According to examinations conducted by Association of Short Tree Orchards only about 30 % of producers achieve good

How to sell apples of variety Delikates?
According to our information consumers unwillingly buy apples of the variety Delikates. In previous years the same concerned apples of the variety Lobo. One of the reason of such situation is

Stock of apple juice concentrate
This year producers of apples can be worried about level of the purchase price of apples for processing. According to the information of processing plants stock of apple juice concentrate of the

Hungarian and Italian watermelons
Wholesale price of watermelons from Hungary is at low level, even 0.28 EUR/kg. Price of watermelons from Italy is a little bit higher (0.34 EUR/kg). Demand for watermelons is closely connected

Situation on the market of Polish apple juice concentrate
Low supply of apples for processing (caused by spring frost) and high purchase prices influenced on decrease of Polish apple juice concentrate export in the season 2007/2008. Total export