Over the past weekend alone (11-12 June), cucumber prices have increased by 15 percent, this is on the back of constant price increases of the vegetable in the Crimean peninsula.
According to Fruit-Inform, sellers have also managed to averagely triple their prices over a week. For the present, wholesale prices of long smooth cucumbers vary between RUB 30-40/kg (USD 0.45-0.60/kg), and gherkins are offered at RUB 50-60/kg (USD 0.75-0.89/kg), depending on quality.
The Crimean market participants connect the price growth with significantly lower supply of produce in the local market, as farms' outputs have considerably fallen due to cold and rainy weather conditions.
It should be noted that current prices of long smooth cucumbers are already 2.5-2.7 times as high as those registered at Crimean wholesale markets a year before. Prices of gherkins have grown on average 3.3 times year-on-year. However, growers expect the market situation to sharply change in the coming days due to improved weather conditions' positive impact on summer greenhouses' outputs.
Source: fruit-inform.com
