Romanian tomatoes are sold in the markets at the price of caviar! The customers look, leave and buy the vegetables imported from Turkey

How much does a kg of Romanian tomatoes from the first harvest cost? The price from the stalls, inaccessible to many Romanians

Romanian tomatoes have appeared at market stalls. Unfortunately, at unaffordable prices. One kilogram reaches 50 lei.

Double the chicken breast, for example.

A single tomato costs 7 lei

Some markets and stores already have Romanian tomatoes for sale. At “premium” prices. For 5 small tomatoes, less than one kilogram, I paid 35 lei. That means 7 lei for just one. About what a whole kilo would cost in a summer month.

“I found them at a producer in Olt and the price is really quite high, it costs 50 lei for a kilogram of tomatoes, but I talked to the producer and he told me why this price is so high a huge amount of work behind the cultivation of these tomatoes.

They are heated with two power plants on electricity and gas, and the producer said that the costs for maintaining the tomatoes are 1,000 lei per day. These tomatoes are a bit bigger and cost 50 lei”according to Kanald.

Imported tomatoes: 20-30 lei/kg

Imported tomatoes are not very cheap either, but they can be bought at half the price/kg compared to Romanian ones. It costs around 20-30 lei per kilogram.

Romanian tomatoes still leave the farmers with a high price. In the vegetable basin of Izbiceni, Olt, for example, a kilogram is sold by farmers for 30-40 lei.

We find “peppery” prices for tomatoes, although the crops receive the most money from the state. Through the “Tomato” program, farmers say they can cover 30% of their investment. The financial aid comes precisely so that the farmer can reduce the price at the end, when he puts the harvest on sale.