%0 Research article
%T Trade of main wild berries in Finland
%A Kangas, Kari
%D 1999
%J Silva Fennica
%V 33
%N 2
%R doi:10.14214/sf.665
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/665
%X The price trends and markets of the main wild berries, bilberry  (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) and lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.),  were analysed in this study, which covered both domestic use of berries,  imports and exports. The periods considered were for bilberries from  1988 to 1997 and for lingonberries from 1979 to 1994. The results  indicated that both exports and imports have increased and domestic  berries have lost their market share to imports in domestic use. One  possible explanation for this trend was found in price development. Both  export and import prices have decreased, but export price has still  been higher than the import price. Simultaneously the domestic price has  decreased the fastest. The formation of the price of lingonberries paid to the pickers in the  organised domestic markets was studied with a regression model. The  results indicated that domestic price was negatively dependent on the  amounts of lingonberries demanded in the domestic markets and positively  dependent on the export price. Correlation analysis gave evidence on  the same kind of relations concerning bilberries.