Poland is Europe's largest cabbage country

Poland is an important player in the European production of vegetables. With regard to cabbage – 4,11 million MT in 2006 - Poland occupies the first place in Europe, and the sixth in the world, after China, India, Japan, North Korea and Russia. Cabbage also occupies the first position in the Polish vegetables acreage – estimated at 30%. The profitability of this production in recent years is yet lower than before due to a few reasons. First of all, Poles eat less and less cabbage because they have greater choice of other vegetables.

The second reason is the low export of Polish cabbage, especially because of a Russian embargo. White cabbage remains the most important for Polish growers, less popular are red and savoy cabbages. The average wholesale price of fresh white cabbage in December was as low as 0,06-0,08 €/kg. More expensive was sauerkraut with an average price of 0,29-0,31 €/kg. Sauerkraut is pretty popular in Polish cuisine and according to various sources, the yearly production is estimated at 70-80 k MT.

Source:http:freshplaza.com