Producers are offering onions for sale at 4-9 UAH per kilogram — 15% cheaper than a week earlier.
As of November 13, onions in Ukraine are on average 42% cheaper than last year. This is due to an increase in the supply of low-quality products that do not have active demand, reports the industry publication EastFruit.
Currently, producers are offering onions for sale in the range of 4-9 UAH/kg ($0.10–0.21/kg), depending on the quality and volumes of the offered batches. This is on average 15% cheaper than a week earlier.
Main market participants suggest that prices may continue to fall as the supply of onions in the market increases.
Due to prolonged rains during the harvest, the quality of onions has significantly deteriorated, making them unsuitable for long-term storage. Therefore, sellers are trying to sell such onions quickly by lowering prices. In contrast, quality onions are rarely sold now — farmers are keeping them in storage and waiting for prices to rise.
According to farmers, the share of non-standard vegetables in the total harvest volume for 2025 is at least twice as high as last year's figures.
According to the expert in the fruit and vegetable market from IA «APK-Inform» Ksenia Huseva, this year agrarians repeated last year's mistake by focusing on high onion prices in 2022-2023.
An excessive number of plantings and a decrease in the average quality of the harvest have become the main factors affecting price formation. The situation has been particularly difficult for farmers in the Odesa region, where heavy rains forced agrarians to urgently sell a significant portion of the harvest.
In more arid regions, such as Dnipropetrovsk and the western areas, most of the onion harvest is being stored. Notably, in recent years, many producers from Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia have moved their farms to the west of the country, where they continue to grow their traditional crops, notes agroweek.
At the same time, last year, some of the onions stored in western Ukraine did not meet quality expectations. This further impacted the final incomes of producers and the market supply.
