retail chains, as well to export vegetables, and get higher price for their products. Along with income improvement, they may … reduce production costs and sale costs. Consequently, membership in growers’ associations provides higher profit for small … changes of vegetable prices could increase farmers’ profit more than costs reduction. To achieve their goals such associations …

In Russia where the major volumes of vegetables are traditionally produced by household farms, the fruit and vegetable … business started developing quite recently. 2009-2010 were favourable for farm producers: market prices for vegetables were … preliminary data for 2012 indicate the lowering of gross output of vegetables but they are still above the average figures for the …