Price of pears

On the wholesale market in Poznań prices of domestic pears of ‘Faworytka’ variety packed in boxes of 10 kg are 1.24 EUR/kg. Pears from Argentina (1st class, in 18 kg boxes) are sold at price 1.45 EUR/kg.

At the same time last year price of domestic pears was about 1.55 – 1.86 EUR/kg. According to this year’s production forecast crops of pears will be at level of 66 thousand ton, i.e. by 113 % more than last year, but by 17 % less than average harvests of these fruits in 2001-2005.

More about situation on the market of pears and about forecasts of prices one can be informed during conference Fresh Market 2008.

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