Speaking to KIBRIS, Yenal Garabli, President of the Marketers’ Association, explained why fruit and vegetable prices are so high.
“Fruit and vegetables can not be produced in the heat”…
Garabli said that it is impossible to grow fruit and vegetables with high temperatures.
“It is very difficult to grow products in this weather. The sun has burned vegetables and melted greenhouse crops. Therefore, we have nothing on the market. When demand is high and the products are very few, the prices double” he was cited as saying.
‘Broccoli’ and ‘dragon fruit’ cost a bomb…
The most affordable vegetable at the moment is ‘eggplant’, which is sold for 17.90 TL per kilo. The most expensive vegetable sold at markets now is ‘Broccoli’ with a cost of 199.90 TL. The cheapest fruit to buy now are ‘apples’ which are sold for 49.90 TL per kilo. ‘Dragon fruit’ is a prohibitively expensive fruit at the moment with a cost of 399.00 TL.
