Russia has reduced apple imports in the current season, according to the official statistics.
Imports in November amounted just to 117,000 tons, a decrease of 8% compared with the same month of the previous season.
Russia’s cumulative imports of apples in July-November 2013 totaled 350,000 tons, a decrease of 12% year-on-year.
In the season 2012/13 the Russian Federation imported 1.34 mln tons of apples with Poland, Moldova, China, Azerbaijan and Serbia being the largest exporters.