The price of fresh Lithuanian potatoes forces hunger

So far do not have much

The merchants still have a small amount of fresh Lithuanian potatoes, but on the weekend, farmers are expected to start digging potatoes.

« The market has been selling fresh potatoes from Cyprus and Greece for some time. The first Lithuanian potatoes appeared only this week. The first potatoes were started to dig the potatoes.

Farmers brought both smaller and larger potatoes.

Lower costs € 2.5. Larger costs 3 euros per kilogram.

Potatoes from Cyprus and Greece also cost a lot – € 2 or 2.5.

« In the other part of Lithuania, the crop was devastated by frost. The finger of God tappied.

Like strawberries?

Potatoes are not in a hurry to dig potatoes in the fields of one larger potato growers in Petras Vasiliauskas.

In a cooperative that unites several farms, only one farmer is engaged in growing early potatoes.

Adolfas Gritėnas. / Photo by Vytautas Liaudanskis

« As far as I know, he promises to dig maybe a week before the Midsummer. In most of Lithuania, the potatoes freeze. Kedainiai farmers try to dig. If the digging, I can only rejoice for my neighbors. But we are only digging before Midsummer and potatoes then we can offer smart prices, » said Rugilė Gikarė.

One well -known Kėdainiai farmer sells the potatoes just from the fields from the fields for 1.7 euros per kilogram.

What could be the price of fresh potatoes of the Pomeranian farmers before the Midsummer is still difficult to guess.

In another part of Lithuania, the crops were devastated by frost. The finger of God tapped.

« Fresh potatoes like strawberries. They are very thin skin. They are difficult to dig. And for growing, the potatoes have been protected from frost technology. This is very expensive. Growing early potatoes is very hard work, » said Gikarė.

The Ukrainians paid more expensive

Farmers’ fields in the Dreverna neighborhood also suffered from frost. Rape fields were particularly affected.

« We really got frost and we. We have a loss, » Gikarė admitted.

However, some farmers allowed the weather to earn.

« Last year, Lithuanians earned their production to Ukraine. Ukrainians paid 30 percent more than Europe. They were drought, » Gikare said.