In Ukraine, since the beginning of last week, there has been a bearish price trend in the market for Sunflower seeds.
Pressure on prices has been pressured by falling prices in the unrefined sunflower oil export market. In addition, the improvement in weather conditions contributed to the development of this trend, which slightly increased the harvest rate and accordingly increased the amount of sunflower seed supply from farmers.
However, we emphasize that in some cases the long rainy weather negatively affected the quality of the seeds. In particular, the market operators noted a high acid number and humidity and also reported the development of the fungus on the plant baskets.
Sunflower seed demand prices fell by 28-41 €/ton during this period and by the end of the day on October 13 were mostly between 348 and 440 €/ton.