The harvest of white cabbage in Uzbekistan was severely affected due to the abnormal cold in the Central Asian region in January 2023. As a result, cabbage prices rose sharply, and the export volume dropped over two-fold compared to the same period last year, EastFruit reports.
From early November 2022 to the end of the first decade of January 2023, white cabbage in Uzbekistan was harvested as usual, but the cold air mass caused huge losses of white cabbage, the portal states.
'A quite obvious consequence of the huge reduction in the supply of white cabbage in the domestic market of the country was a sharp increase in its prices. According to the results of a retail audit of supermarket chains in the capital of Uzbekistan in mid-November 2022 when the harvest of early varieties of “August” cabbage began, its average retail price in supermarkets was 2 400 UZS/kg ($0.21). As of February 08, 2023, white cabbage was sold in supermarkets in the capital of Uzbekistan at an average of 6 000 UZS/kg ($0.53). In other words, retail prices for cabbage have increased by 2.5 times since the start of harvesting the cabbage of the new crop.
According to Uzbek exporters, after the January cold weather and its damage to the crop of white cabbage in Uzbekistan, it has become a very difficult task to form batches of good quality cabbage on the domestic market starting from mid-January. Given the weak demand for Uzbek cabbage in the main sales markets, importers’ orders for high-quality cabbage are almost impossible to fulfill. Thus, farmers hope for a good harvest of the late varieties of “August” cabbage, which have not yet formed heads by the time the abnormally cold weather started and suffered much less', the message reads.
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