Weekly summary – fresh-market.pl price analysis (20-26.07.2009)
The third decade of July brought next decrease in purchase prices sour cherries. At the end of last week in surroundings of Sandomierz the purchase price of sour cherries for freezing was only 0.12 EUR/kg.
So fruit growers are more and more disappointed about purchase prices. Only the cost of picking fruits is 0.08 – 0.09 EUR/kg. Prices of dessert sour cherries intended for export were stable. The price of such fruit with stems was 0.47 – 0.52 EUR/kg (without packages).
Last week the purchase price of raspberries decreased. The price of these fruits in processing plants was 0.78 EUR/kg, while earlier the price was 0.90 EUR/kg. The purchase prices of blackcurrants remained stable. The average price was 0.47 – 0.52 EUR/kg.
One could observe further decline in prices of Early Geneva apples. The price of good quality apples was 0.24 – 0.31 EUR/kg.
The first plums (Herman, Ruth Gerstetter, Cacanska Rana) appeared on the wholesale markets. In the centre of Poland, where May frost caused bigger damage in orchards, the prices of plums are higher (0.71 – 1.19 EUR/kg). In south and south-east Poland, where there are more plums the price of Herman quickly dropped even to 0.24 EUR/kg.
On the market of fresh vegetables one could observe further fluctuation in prices of cucumbers, tomatoes and cauliflowers. At the beginning of last week prices of cauliflowers slightly decreased to 0.45 EUR/pcs. However the low supply of these vegetables resulted in higher prices at the last week – on average 0.49 EUR/pcs). The fluctuation in prices concerned also tomatoes. At the beginning of last week prices of tomatoes were much increasing. The average price of B tomatoes increased from 0.66 EUR/kg to 0.69 EUR/kg and BB tomatoes form 0.53 EUR/kg to 0.75 EUR/kg. However at the of the week the prices much decreased to 0.57 EUR/kg for B tomatoes and 0.59 EUR/kg for BB tomatoes.
Prices of short greenhouse cucumbers again decreased. At the end of first decade of July their average price was even 0.71 EUR/kg. However last week the price of cucumbers decreased from 0.62 EUR/kg to 0.32 EUR/kg. This decrease in prices is caused by significant increase in supply of these cucumbers.
Last week prices of sweet peppers also decreased. The price of red peppers was 0.90 EUR/kg while at the beginning of harvest period the price was 1.41 EUR/kg. Last week the price of green peppers decreased from 0.66 EUR/kg to 0.59 EUR/kg and white peppers from 0.81 EUR/kg to 0.71 EUR/kg.
Source: fresh-market.pl (ms)