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Food prices in Ukraine in recent weeks have shown heterogeneous dynamics, with price increases in some categories and stability or slight price increases in others. According to the State Statistics Service, in January 2024, the inflation rate for food and non-alcoholic beverages amounted to 0.5%, which is slightly higher than the general inflation rate (0.3%).
The average price of food products at the beginning of the year in our country increased by almost 4% compared to the same period last year, analysts report.
Recently, the price of tomatoes imported from Turkey has started to decrease rapidly in our country. Experts from the EastFruit platform call the main factor of this decrease a rather small interest on the part of large wholesale companies.
Ukrainian producers and farmers could not avoid a decrease in the cost of cabbage, experts from the EastFruit platform report.
In our country, the price of the most popular vegetables has increased again, for example, 1 kilogram of potatoes can now be purchased for 35 hryvnias, and a kilogram of onions costs 140 hryvnias, analysts from the today.ua platform report.
In 2023, all the big players and small entrepreneurs produced approximately 7.5 million tons of milk, which is approximately 5% less than last year, the Association of Milk Producers reports.
Currently, the price is already higher than during the same period last year and continues to rise gradually, analysts from the EastFruit platform report.
This week, producers and distributors from Ukraine began to rapidly increase the cost of quality products, analysts for the EastFruit platform report.
