Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analyse (13-19.10.2008)

The consecutive week of October passed and the purchase price of industrial apples again dropped. In mazowieckie province the purchase price in purchasing centres was 0.017 - 0.22 EUR/kg and in processing plants price was 0.028 - 0.34 EUR/kg.

Such low prices of industrial apples were noted 7 years ago. Will the price of this season break the record of the lowest prices?

Prices of eating apples were still stable at the low level. Price of apples of 7+ size intended for export was 0.168 – 0.182 EUR/kg (with the packaging). Only price of Gala is higher 0.224 – 0.28 EUR/kg.

Last week on the vegetable market there weren’t big changes. Prices of the majority of vegetables remain stable. The celeries was an exception. In mazowieckie province their prices decreased to the level of 0.224 - 0.238 EUR/kg. Large amounts of cauliflowers and broccoli appeared on the market caused that their average prices slightly decreased. The average price of cauliflowers was 0.45 EUR/piece, and price of broccoli was 0.39 EUR/piece.

A season of the harvest of sweet peppers is slowly ending. Prices of red sweet peppers packed into cardboard boxes was 0.90 EUR/kg, and price of green sweet peppers was 0.45 EUR/kg. Last week prices of tomatoes stabilized. At the end of week the average price of tomatoes of A size was 0.97 EUR/kg, tomatoes of B size 1.09 EUR/kg and price of tomatoes BB size was 1.14 EUR/kg.

Source: fresh-market.pl (ms)