Homegrown potatoes, eggs, honey, apples, mushrooms, and forest berries can be a good addition to the family budget. But before selling, you need to sort out documents, taxes, and the place of trade. One certificate from the executive committee often resolves several issues at once, while selling mushrooms “by hand” by the road can lead to trouble.

Is tax required for selling potatoes and vegetables? If a person sells potatoes, vegetables, fruits, berries, or other products grown on their own plot, the income is usually exempt from personal income tax. This rule also applies to livestock, beekeeping, fish raised in a personal farm, as well as wild berries, mushrooms, nuts, and medicinal plants. However, there is a key condition. The seller needs a certificate confirming the origin of the product. The document is issued by the local executive and administrative body at the location of the land plot. To apply, you need an application and an identity document. The certificate confirms that potatoes, cabbage, apples, or berries were grown by the seller themselves or their close relatives on a plot allocated for construction and maintenance of a house, personal subsidiary farming, gardening, horticulture, or a dacha. Without this paper, trade may raise questions from

To accumulate cesium-137, externally the product may look fresh and completely safe. In the first half of 2026, specialists checked 5,300 samples of food products. Excesses of cesium-137 were found in 48 samples, most often - specifically in forest mushrooms and berries. Where to conduct radiation control? Market laboratories, district centers for hygiene and epidemiology would work, and in some cases - forestry service radiation control posts. Sales through advertisements and the internet. Selling potatoes, vegetables or honey through online ads does not by itself cancel requirements for origin and product safety. If the buyer takes the harvest from your plot, agree on price, volume and time in advance. In the ad it is better to honestly indicate variety, growing region, conditions of self-pickup

Being safety check. Potatoes and apples require a certificate of origin. Mushrooms and forest berries also require mandatory radiation control. A couple of documents will take little time, but buyers will trust the product, and the seller will not face questions about taxes and legality of trade.