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

Prices of grapefruit on the Polish market
At the beginning of 2009 one can observe a considerable demand for citrus fruit among others grapefruit. On the wholesale market in Bronisze grapefruit from Turkey are the most popular. On

Import of fruit
According to forecasts of IERiGŻ-PIB import of oranges in season 2008/2009 will be the biggest in the period of five last years and it will amount to 123 thousand t at value 61 million euro.

Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analyse (15-21.12.2008)
In the third week of December prices of apples for export remained stable. The price (without packaging) of red varieties, size 7 +, was from 0.40 PLN (0.097 euro)/kg. There are a lot of apples

Italian mandarins cheaper than Spanish ones
Together with approaching of Christmas more and more citrus fruit is appearing on the Polish market. Mandarins which are very popular in Poland are imported mainly from Spain and Italy. At the

Higher import of southern fruit
According to the newest forecasts of IERiGŻ-PIB much higher import of almost all southern fruit is expected in season 2008/2009 (mainly citrus fruit, kiwi fruit, watermelon and grapes). Prices

Stagnation in trade of citrus fruit?
In mazowieckie province importers of citrus fruit are announcing that current turnovers aren't impressive, and wholesale recipients reduced their orders. Probably the situation will change in

Consumption of fruit
According to examinations of households conducted by the GUS consumption of fresh and processed fruit takes the fifth place (after the meat, products from cereals, eggs and dairy products and