Sweet Potato insights

[Reporter Seong-je Cho, Korea Agricultural and Fishery Newspaper] The '2024 Andong Honey Sweet Potatoes' produced in the Andong region have started to be exported to Hong Kong in earnest. In relation to this, Andong City announced that it held a '2024 Andong Honey Sweet Potatoes' loading ceremony for export to Hong Kong at the Andong Waryong Agricultural Cooperative Distribution Center on the 1st. Hong Kong is the main export market for Andong sweet potatoes, and the sweet potatoes being exported this time are 2024 honey sweet potatoes harvested by the Waryong Deep Sweet Potato Export Crop Group, weighing 8.2 tons. Prior to this, a total of 42 tons were exported to Hong Kong last year, and 25 tons in the first half of this year. According to Andong City, Andong honey sweet potatoes

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Key moments of the past week: — Top sellers: white cabbage and persimmon — Potato supply doubled, offers from the Baltic countries appeared — Tomato sales continue to grow — Number of grape sellers is growing, while apples are decreasing — Tomato and cucumber prices have risen sharply in Uzbekistan — Potato prices in Ukraine hit another record — Egyptian exporters have reduced prices for sweet potatoes and lemons These and other trends in the region's fruit and vegetable markets are covered in the weekly review of EastFruit trading platforms. Last week, participants from 11 countries again sold their products in the EastFruit Trade Platform trading group, while the total number of ads posted also remained at the level of the previous week. Representatives of Iran and Poland stepped up their trade. At the same time, sales from Egypt and Turkey decreased. Ads from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan appeared again. After a long absence, participants from Lithuania and Latvia posted their offers. The top five