The gross production of vegetables in Ukraine will increase by more than 5% by the end of 2025, and melons by more than 10%. This was reported by Viktoria Rud, a candidate of economic sciences, a senior researcher at the Institute of Vegetable and Melon Growing of the NAAS, in her article for the final issue of the magazine "Plantator", AgroTimes writes.
According to her, in the end, the country may reach the mark of 8.6 million tons, which will give a chance to stabilize prices and go through the season more confidently. "The statistics of 2025 will bring not just recovery from shocks to the Ukrainian vegetable market, but a real change in geography," she predicts. "But more importantly, a new map of vegetable growing is being formed in Ukraine - with new centers, new players and a new specialization of regions." After the start of the full-scale war, the south and east, which traditionally supplied the country with vegetables, suffered the greatest losses. Kherson region alone provided about 14% of the total, the economist recalls, followed by Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Kyiv regions.
Source: https://agroportal.ua/news/rastenievodstvo/na-rinku-ovochivnictva-ukrajini-prognozuyut-znachni-zmini
