Field tomatoes already on the market

Field tomatoes are already sold on wholesale markets. Prices of field tomatoes in boxes of 6 kg are 0.47 EUR/kg on the wholesale market in Rzeszów. Last year field tomatoes appeared on the market on about August 20th and price then was 0.53 EUR/kg.

According to the newest estimates of GUS (dated July 25th) production of field tomatoes in Poland might amount to 254 thousand tons this year, i.e. about 10 % less than in 2007.

Source: fresh-market.pl, on the basis of data from IERiGŻ-PIB, wholesale markets and GUS (ts)