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Market traders claim that the produce sold here is the freshest, grown without fertilizers, and outperforms supermarket produce on their properties.
Last Saturday, a buyer heard rumors that he was lazy to go to the market and buy cheap potatoes at the mall.
Boiled he did not understand either the taste or the image, so now he buys vegetables and berries only from the market. After all, family farmers and small gardeners trade here.
Has been operating for 12 years
Jonas Maziliauskas, a farmer from Juknaiti, has three children, one of whom often sells products grown by the family. The eldest son, who brings the produce to the market, said that the father owns 4 hectares of land growing potatoes and carrots.
Now he wants to cut back on some activity because he is interested in gardening: apples and pears. He and his brothers have greenhouses and gardens, so he grows cucumbers, cabbages, onions, and other vegetables. The brothers have other jobs, so they give him all the products to sell.
Just by standing next to a Juknaitis merchant for a few minutes, you can immediately realize that you are already known to customers and that the products you sell are trustworthy. Remember the grandmothers who came by name and even know where they live. As soon as they say they want some more potatoes and carrots, he already says he remembers where to take them.
When asked how he is doing here, the farmer from Juknaitis replies that he has been trading with his father since he was 12 years old. All their family-owned products are healthily grown, of high quality, and have earned the trust of buyers.
It sells potatoes, carrots, onions and cucumbers for almost the same price: 50 or 60 cents a kilo. Unless the potatoes, depending on the size, can be even cheaper.
“This year people can be calm, the year is good, the harvest is abundant,” says Juknaitiskis. By the way, in his garden this year he failed to grow beautiful garlic.
Honey at the Kaunas station market
Senior income supplement
Bronislovas from the Makiai village of the Žemaičiai Naumiestis elder estate bring their garden and forest products to the Šilutė market.
The prettier and smaller boletus sells for 10 euros and others for 7 euros per kilo. (In Vilnius, Calvary Market, the same amount costs 25 Eur. After Delfi).
Bronislaw is now of retirement age, so trading on the market brings him additional income. In the garden she grows many flowers. This time they brought hydrangea bushes for sale, they asked 4 Eur for one of them. The grape seedlings were sold at a similar price.
Bronislovas also has beehives on his farm. Sell a half liter jar of honey for 4 euros.
According to the senior, negotiating in the market does not bother him, it encourages him to work more at home and the monthly income sometimes reaches the amount of a pension.
Florist Saulius, who came from Tauragė, said that he not only raises flowers, but also 14 cows on his mixed farm. The flower trade helps generate a little more income. He said that he had brought 5 species of sororai, echinacea, heather and multi-colored chrysanthemums to the residents of Šilutė. The price of each seedling is a few euros.
Russian farmers are satisfied with the harvest
Farmers have been trading at the Šilutė market for several decades, placing only their produce on the counter. Albinas and Gediminas Antanavičiai, Ramutė and Sergėjus Lacko, Artūras Stasiulis have a well-deserved quality mark for their potatoes, carrots, onions, beets, cabbages and other vegetables. After all, they are in almost the same place every day in the market, they know their customers and are directly responsible for the quality of their products.
Everyone is happy with the abundance of this year’s harvest. Antanavičiai and Lacko plan to slightly reduce vegetable crops; they are adapting to the need of commerce. So far, they have harvested 4-5 hectares of land. A. Stasiulis will increase his crops by several dozen acres, because his farm is small, up to 1.5 ha. This farmer now has more free time and can therefore produce more products.
All the farmers currently trading the market are surprised that the townspeople have not yet started buying bagged vegetables to stock up in the fall and winter and have to walk less to the market in bad weather. In his opinion, in the past, potatoes and carrots were already “moving” at that time. Now you can buy a bag of potatoes of 30 kg even for 8 euros.
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