REUTERS
The price of Turkish greenhouse cucumbers, tomatoes, pomegranates, grapes, and citrus fruit is expected to sink by the New Year.
Escalation between Russia and Turkey following the downing of the Russian bomber by the Turkish Air Force resulted in a decline in prices on the Ukrainian food market, said Tetiana Hetman, head of APK-Inform: Vegetable and Fruit project, during a press conference on Tuesday.
"To date, we can already see the effect. While a week ago the customs price of Turkish tangerine was about UAH 21 per kilogram, then today the [supermarket] networks are already considering offers for UAH 17-18 per kilogram," she said.
According to Hetman, the experts are expecting the New Year’s price reductions for the Turkish greenhouse cucumbers, tomatoes, pomegranates, grapes, and citrus fruit.
"Turkish suppliers are turning to Ukraine because Ukraine is an important customer for Turkey, the third after the European Union and Russia," said the expert.
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Fedir Rybalko, international expert in fruit and vegetable market, the next year’s decline in prices will also be promoted by the abolition of additional import charges, announced by the Finance Ministry.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on November 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin has imposed sanctions against Turkey, “to protect national security and national interests of Russia." In particular, a ban or restriction of foreign economic operations is introduced involving imports into the Russian Federation of certain goods from Turkey. The list of such goods determined by the Government of the Russian Federation includes cuts and edible offal domestic chicken and turkey, fresh tomato, onion and shallot, cauliflower and broccoli, cucumber and gherkin, orange, tangerine, grape, apple, pear, apricot, peach, plum, strawberry, wild strawberry, and salt.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine initiated the talks between Turkish diplomats and the Ukrainian farmers on supply of food products to the Turkish market.
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Head of Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Oleksiy Pavlenko said that Ukraine is ready to compensate for the Turkey’s loss of any supplier of agricultural products.