How much does 1 kg of potatoes cost on average?
It is noted that Türkiye, Poland and the Netherlands have become the main importers of vegetables.
At the end of the 2024 season, Ukraine faced a potato shortage due to a poor harvest, which led to an increase in prices for the vegetable. As a result, imports increased significantly.
“As for the dynamics of import purchases for 10 months of 2024 in the vegetable group, attention is drawn to the fact that, although relatively insignificant, from the base last year there was an increase of 90% in potato purchases. This is due to the fact that the current harvest year was far from predicted,” said Bogdan Duchnitsky, senior researcher at the Department of Economics of Agricultural Production and International Integration of the National Research Center “Institute of Agrarian Economics,” SEEDS writes.
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