Recent frosts have caused significant damage to the garden strawberry plantations in Poland and the western regions of Ukraine. As a result, market participants are trying to predict a rise in prices for frozen strawberries this season, EastFruit experts report.

In Western Ukraine, due to bad weather, farmers lost 20 to 50% of the total berry harvest. In Poland, the air temperature dropped to -6-8 ° С for three consecutive nights. The lands on which frosts were observed lost the entire strawberry crop.

A large number of garden strawberry producers from those regions of Ukraine that were not affected by frosts are confident that prices for berries this season will be very favorable.

Foreign companies from the Netherlands, Poland and Belgium began to become interested in the possible import of frozen Ukrainian berries, anticipating a natural shortage of the product on the market.

But even despite the losses of farmers from frosts, the market for fresh berries does not panic. Strawberry prices continue to be relatively low, as retail outlets are saturated with products from southern European countries such as Italy, Spain, Greece and Albania.

North African countries, which were not affected by frosts, also supply strawberries, as well as producers of berries from greenhouses in countries affected by adverse weather conditions.