According to Kishchak, Ukraine is among the world’s leading sweet cherry producers. She said that, as in Turkey, the largest producer globally, the average price during the peak marketing period is traditionally around $2–3/kg.

Weather conditions have hurt yields of most fruit and vegetable crops in Ukraine, but the impact on sweet cherries was less severe. “According to the information we receive from leading farms in the Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions, which, after the temporary occupation by Russians of Crimea and parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, became the main producers of sweet cherries and apricots, there were no such destructive spring frosts there. Therefore, the domestic market will be saturated with fruit of local production,” the specialist said.

She added that sellers will, in any case, take consumer purchasing power into account. “Fruit and berry products are highly perishable, so even considering all the negative factors mentioned above, sweet cherry prices on the market will remain at the level of the real purchasing power of mass consumers,” Kishchak said.

Source: Fresh Plaza