The increase in the cost of potatoes, recorded on the domestic market of our country over the past week, was recently replaced by a decrease caused by the minimization of trading activity in this segment.
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As NBN reports with reference to the analytical material of the EastFruit project, with the arrival of the weekend, domestic farmers began to adjust previously set prices for the existing batch of agricultural products downwards, despite the depletion of potato reserves in vegetable storage facilities.
In particular, 7 days earlier, the purchase price of root crops of proper quality in Ukraine often reached 30 hryvnia/kilogram, but now it is formed in the range from 18 to 28 hryvnia/kilogram, which, on average, is 10 percent lower than observed at the end of the last working week.
However, at the moment the price of potatoes is, on average, 18 percent higher than it was at the beginning of March last year. Also, some producers are sure that the downward price dynamics in this sector is a short-term phenomenon, since there is a shortage of quality products on the market, and the volumes of stored potatoes in agricultural enterprises, among the population, and among commercial agricultural producers continue to decline sharply.
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According to the data from the Ministry of Finance portal, the cost of this root vegetable in Ukrainian supermarkets looks like this:
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Earlier, we wrote about how the Ministry of Economy explained the delay in the accrual of Natcashback for December-January.