Poland has significantly reduced apple exports to the Russian Federation, according to the official statistics.
In particular, Russian importers purchased just 37,000 tons of Polish apples in November 2013, a decrease of 38% compared with the same month of the previous year.
Russia’s cumulative imports of apples from Poland in the first 5 months of the current season totaled 91,000 tons, a decrease of 29% compared with the same period of the season 2012/13.
Poland is a stable leader in apple exports to the Russian Federation with the share of 55% in Russia’s total imports in the previous season.