In the first three quarters of last year, Russians imported a total of 4,791 million tonnes of fruits and vegetables, of which 3,816 million tonnes corresponded to fruits and the other 975 thousand tonnes to vegetables.
For comparison, in the corresponding nine months of 2014, fruit and vegetable imports totalled 5,965 million tonnes, while the volume for the entire year 2014 reached 7,934 million tonnes.
Of the 4,791 million tonnes imported between January and the end of September 2015, the largest share corresponded to bananas, with 889 thousand tonnes, followed by apples, with 618.2 thousand tonnes, tomatoes, with 535.1 thousand tonnes, mandarins, with 328.3 thousand tonnes, oranges, with more than 325 thousand tonnes, and onions, with slightly less than 260 thousand tonnes.
The largest exporter to the Russian market in the first nine months of last year was Ecuador, which provided essentially 100% of all bananas imported by Russia, with 876.8 thousand tonnes. In second place we found Belarus, with 817.7 thousand tonnes, Turkey, with 766.8 thousand tonnes, China, with 448.8 thousand tonnes, Egypt, with 321.7 thousand tonnes, and Israel, with about 209.0 thousand tonnes.