2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
It is expected after St. George's Day tomato prices to fall, said Eduard Stoychev - Chairman of the State Commission on Commodity Exchanges and Markets. The expert hopes that by then the illegal import from Greece will be controlled.
Stoychev explains that the illegal tomatoes that are imported into our country are most often of Albanian and Macedonian origin, and their documents are forged in our southern neighbor.
The first Bulgarian pink tomatoes are already sold on the markets in our country. Their retail price is currently high - between BGN 3.80 and 5 per kilogram. The other varieties of tomatoes are sold for between 3 and 4 levs per kilogram.
There will be a reduction in prices for up to 2 weeks by up to 30 stotinki per kilogram. Even with this reduction, however, tomatoes will be sold at higher prices than last year, when the weight of most varieties around the May holidays did not exceed the price of 2 levs.
Vegetable growers say the reason for the high values this spring is the cool March and April, when there was not enough sun for the tomatoes to ripen in time.
The first production on the market will be more expensive than usual, but after St. George's Day prices will start to fall significantly. Their current wholesale prices are between BGN 2.50 and 2.60 per kilogram.
The quantities of the production are not large yet, but this will happen in May as well - says the chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Greenhouse Producers Krassimir Kichukov to the Press newspaper.
Kichukov also welcomed the inspections undertaken by the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency. According to him, the markets and markets are full of traders who do not comply with the law and sell low-quality goods to customers, deceiving them that they are high-class Bulgarian vegetables.
Cucumbers will also become cheaper. At the moment their price per kilogram is BGN 1.70-1.80. After the holidays in early May, however, their values will fall to BGN 1.20-1.50 per kilogram.
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