A popular product in Ukraine is rising in price and breaking records: experts gave an explanation

Ukraine is experiencing a garlic shortage, leading to a significant price increase of about 1.5 times, reaching a record 200 UAH per kg. This shortage is part of a larger issue in Europe, where demand is outstripping supply, exacerbated by high labor and transport costs, and the exhaustion of stocks from main producers like Spain and South America. Factors contributing to the shortage include weather conditions, reduced garlic cultivation areas in Ukraine, and import restrictions and fines on Chinese garlic. As a result, garlic is becoming too expensive for the Ukrainian market, and economists predict that product prices, especially vegetables like potatoes, could see a significant increase by 2025 due to weather-related yields and other factors.

Garlic in Ukraine will no longer be cheap - the country does not have sufficient supplies, and in Europe its prices are 1.5 times higher. This is reported by the EastFruit project. It is noted that since mid-December, prices for garlic on store shelves have confidently exceeded the mark of 200 UAH per kg, and in hryvnias this is an absolute record. Even during the pandemic, this vegetable was cheaper, because before the war it was grown in large fields in some places. Now there is nothing to extinguish the flames of demand for this burning vegetable. It is difficult to find even a couple of batches in Ukraine, and the import of quality garlic is too expensive. "It is very difficult to find even two tons of marketable garlic for our own production. There is no permanent cultivation of it in Ukraine. There are only small batches from vegetable gardens, of different quality and varieties. They are not even suitable for retail chains. What can we say about industrial processing," ...