Last year Russia imported 200,000 tones of fresh fruits, vegetables and dried fruits from Uzbekistan worth about $300 mln. Uzbekistan’s fruit and vegetables export volume to Russia exceeded export volumes of such traditional suppliers of the Russian Federation as Poland, China, Spain, Argentina, Morocco, South Africa and Italy. Ukraine is strengthening its positions in the Russian market for fruits and vegetables too.
Ukraine has already outstripped Spain, Egypt, Belgium, France and Germany in export value of vegetables to the Russian Federation. Russia is also increasing imports of Ukrainian apples. “In the season 2010/11 Ukraine entered the group of top-four biggest suppliers of apples to Russia and outstripped its major European competitors such as the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, Serbia, Belgium and Hungary”, Tetiana Getman, Head of Fruit-Inform Project, said during the First International Conference “Apple Business of Ukraine, Russia and Moldova – 2011”.
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Agriculture also expect the country’s exports of fruits and vegetables to Russia to grow by 20-25%.
Source: www.freshplaza.com