Ukrainian blueberries have increased in their availability on European stores and have maintained their higher prices than in the Ukrainian market. Ukraine. The president of the Ukrainian Horticulture Association (UHA) Taras Bashtannik has discussed the issue in a SEEDS commentary.

“If you break it down into the main varieties, we can see that blueberries were shipped much more in the past year. This is the benefit of the most significant Ukrainian exporters and manufacturers. The result was a rise in the number of Ukrainian blueberries on European supermarket shelves. They also managed to keep the price of a decent 20 percent more than last year on the market in Ukraine. of Ukraine in the sense that there was some space opened up to small- and medium-sized producers as well as the ones who don’t export.

The market has changed dramatically for more negative prices of raspberries. However, it has nothing to do with the conflict. It is because of the anticipated overproduction planned for the market for raspberries, as has been observed in the past 2 or 3 years. So, it was natural,” says Taras Bashtannik. According to him, the things didn’t really change in the second year of conflict. It hasn’t, at least, changed to the negative. Every aspect of the market were determined by the market, not influenced by the war.

“The raspberry market was expected to be low in price. Nothing new or new in this report. In the coming year, there could be some adjustment to more expensive raspberries however, not by much: 15 to 20 percent, and no more.

Concerning blueberries, I believe that Ukraine is likely to continue increasing its position in Europe globally in regards to exports. It seems to me that the market for blueberries is likely to be in the coming year. This is at least a positive, optimistic scenario,” the president of UHA is convinced. UHA is confident.

This was not the case this year with the strawberries which saw significant modifications coming from to the Kherson region.

“For strawberries markets, they have traditionally been vibrant and active however, the market for exports isn’t as lively, which has been since quite a time because of the a lot of competition in frozen strawberries imported from Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia. This makes it nearly impossible to Ukrainian farmers to be competitive in the market.

So, the best option is whether to sell the strawberries to the markets that sell fresh fruit. However, after this situation I would like to see that, temporarily with Kherson that there is a market that will not become as crowded. It is unclear what might transpire during this season with regard to the storage of fresh fruits as well as frozen the berries. It is impossible to predict what’s going to happen to the power supply. However, I’m sure there is a good chance that Ukrainian agriculturalists will be better ready for power failures,” predicts Taras Bashtannik.

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