Lack of buyers for plums and apricots
Producers are complaining that buyers are not interested in domestic plums. Now even the best producers and trading companies are not trading in these fruits and their price decreased to 0.62

First domestic plums on the market
Polish fruit producers already offer plums variety ‘Herman’ in 5 or 6 kg boxes. Price of I class plums (size 3.5 cm +) is 0.61 EUR/kg and price of plums (size 4 cm+) is 0.71

Agro Alians among participants of Fresh Market 2008
Representatives of trade company Agro Alians can be met on 19 September in Merchant Trade Centre during the conference Fresh Market 2008. Agro Alians is a supplier of Polish fresh fruit and

Plums: higher crops in 2008?
In 2008 crops of plums can reach 110 thousand tons i.e. over twice more than in 2007 (53.5 thousand tons). Last year spring frost resulted in low crops. This year production level may be the

Decrease of fruit price in 2008?
Purchase price of most fruit in 2008 will probably much decrease in comparison with very high prices of last year. Purchase prices of dessert apples will decrease by 40 % to 0.39 EUR/kg. Prices of

Production cost of plums
The forecast of production costs of plums prepared by IAFE-NRI (ZEO-IERiGŻ-PIB) shows these costs will be at level of 0.24 – 0.26 EUR/kg (or 3 600 – 3 835 EUR/ha). Production costs at level

Plums - production profitability
Production cost calculation conducted by Horticultural Economics Department of IAFE-NRI (ZEO-IERiGŻ-PIB) shows that domestic production of plums was profitable in years 2005 and 2007 and