2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Only 14 percent of the tomatoes we bought in January were Bulgarian-made, said Eduard Stoychev, chairman of the State Commission on Commodity Exchanges and Markets.
During the festive December, the percentage of Bulgarian tomatoes was even lower - only 11%, said the expert, adding that most of the fruits and vegetables in our markets are imported.
Last month, only 25% of the cucumbers we bought were grown in Bulgaria. In January, the percentage of Bulgarian cucumbers was 29.
Last week, imported cucumbers rose by 35.3% and are now sold at BGN 2.03 per kilogram wholesale. Bulgarian green vegetables in foil on the stock exchange in Slatina are offered at BGN 2.05 per kilogram.
Imported products in our country come mainly from Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Spain, Morocco and Albania.
Traders say imports from Albania have risen sharply recently. Deliveries of greens from Albanian producers have been made for the past 7-8 years, but they have often crossed the border with Greek invoices.
Until recently, most Albanian producers worked in our southern neighbor, but the crisis in the country forced them to withdraw their business and start producing fruit and vegetables in their homeland.
Fruits and vegetables from the warmer countries of our markets are offered at more reasonable prices in contrast to the Bulgarian greenhouse products, which continue to rise in price.
In just one week, domestic tomatoes have risen in price by 11.7%, reaching wholesale prices of BGN 2.48 per kilogram. On the other hand, the prices of imported tomatoes are around BGN 2.18 per kilogram.
On the Internet we can also find ads for the sale of imported vegetables.
Spanish tomatoes, for example, are available at 75-89 eurocents. The price of Macedonian cabbage is 24 eurocents, red peppers from Albania go for 89 eurocents.
You can buy white pumpkin from Serbia for 17 eurocents and field apples - between 23 and 35 eurocents per kilogram.
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