Information for fruit and vegetables business in CIS
Poland: apple prices a third lower year-on-year due to moderate export demand
Current apple prices fixed by Polish growers are averagely a third lower year-on-year due to exporters' relatively moderate demand for produce against a background of its record high stocks, according to Fruit-Inform.
Now farmers are ready to ship their apples at 0.16-0.37 euro/kg, depending on variety, with Golden Delicious and Gala offered at the highest prices. For comparison, prices stood at least at 0.25 euro/kg in the mid-April 2015.
The market analysts connect a year-on-year fall in prices with rather high supply of apples in the country. As Fruit-Inform has already reported, Polish stocks were record high in early March 2016. Ukraine is now the main export market for Polish exporters, and shipments to other countries are not high.
We would remind you that Russian wholesalers were actively buying Polish apples in April 2016 despite active sanctions. Poland managed to ship apples to Russia thanks to re-exports through third countries (Belarus in particular). Polish apples also arrived in the Russian Federation through Crimea. Now illegal exports to Russia significantly went down due to the ban on imports of foodstuffs from Ukraine and tougher customs control system over products shipped from Belarus.
We would remind you that more detailed information about the Eastern European market developments is available in the fundamental study «Apple Business in Ukraine, Russia & Kazakhstan — 2016: Present Situation and Prospects in Growing, Storage, Handling, Processing and Marketing».
To learn more about it, please contact International Relations Department of Fruit-Inform:
Ievgen Kuzin
phone: +380 (562) 321595, ext. - 341
cell: +380 96 5836323
email: [email protected]