The demand on Polish apples from the part of Russian importers is rather low. The supplies are rare and the shipments are usually small.
At the moment almost all sorts of apples are purchased: Johnagold, Ligol, Gloster, Elisa, and also Champion, but in limited quantities. The apple prices vary between 0,11-0,14 euro per kg (caliber 65) and 0,16-0,18 euro per kg (caliber 75).
Source: www.freshmarket.ru
Thanks to good weather and absence of rains the production of kiwi fruit in Italy will grow 15-20% and will exceed 500 thousand tons. Growers expect high quality of fruit and growth of supplies to Russia. This forecast has been made by Diego de Lucca/company Alegra at the exhibition Macfurt 2011 that is being held this week in Italy.
The company Alegra is one of the most important fruit growers and exporters in Italy. Every year they produce about 45-50 thousand tons. Most of all they export stone fruit (nectarines to Russia), kiwi and apples. The kiwi cropping is planned for the end of October, and the supplies will start the second week of November.
Source: www.fruitnews.ru
With the appearance of cheap seasonal products at the market, Russian consumers renounce buying fruit and vegetables traditionally present at their tables.
Retailers talk about the dramatic decline of import. This tendency was noted by Elena Koroleva, head of purchasing department of the supermarkets “7Я” (“Semya”), within the framework of the business program of the exhibition Macfrut 2011/3d European fruit summit, that is taking place in Italy this week. This tendency is due to low prices; consumers remember the last year prices for potatoes that reached 50 rubles per kg.
Source: www.fruitnews.ru
Russia is the largest importer of cherries in the world and the second largest importer of peaches. Since 2005, cherry have increased more than twofold from 34,917 metric tons (MT) to a record 73,796 MT in 2010. Additionally, 228,200 MT of cherries are grown in Russia, including 162,500 MT of tart cherries in private orchards. In 2010, the import rate decreased to modest 3 percent compared with 19 percent growth in 2009 and showed negative growth during January – May 2011 period.
Imports are expected to be lower in 2011. Due to shipping advantages from the West American cherries have a limited niche in the Russian Far East. The demand for peaches and nectarines continues to climb. For the January-May 2011 period, imports went up by percent in volume and 157 percent in value, and seem to be on the way to breaking last year’s record. At this time, the States is virtually shut out of the market due to the length of delivery and heavy competition from European product.
U.S. share of the cherry market in Russia is negligible. In 2010, 97 MT of cherries were imported from the United to the Russian Far East, down twofold compared with 2009 due to the limited crop in the United States. Another limiting factor is the cost of delivery, which must be by air. However, with proper marketing, American cherries can find in upscale Moscow supermarkets, where the demand for expensive fruit is higher. American cherries have better, potential in the Russian Far East, where delivery in 21 days by ocean is feasible and higher prices on cherries.
Source: www.thepacker.com
During the season 2011/12 the world production of peaches and nectarines will grow 10 % and will make 18.1 million tons.
The world leaders in peach and nectarine production will be China with the production volume of 11.6 million tons (10% more than the last season), EU (almost 4 million tons-18% more) and USA (1.2 million tons—approximately the same volume as in the season 2010/11). Export of these fruit will also grow mostly due to the growing demand in Russia.
Russian Federation will become market №1 for the foreign suppliers, peach and nectarine import to Russia will grow 12% and will make 259 thousand tons.
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Nowadays apples from Moldova dominate at the Russian market. This situation is extremely unprofitable for Polish growers, because export apple prices and prices at the domestic market depend on the export volume to the CIS countries.
Russian importers prefer buying cheaper production, despite qualitative packing, graduation and homogeneity of Polish apples.
At the Moscow market prices on apples from Moldova vary within 23-24 rubles per kg, while apples from Poland cost about 33-34 rubles per kg.
Source: www.fruitnews.ru
Last year was rather harvestless in Europe, that’s why some other suppliers, such as Ukraine, got the opportunity to establish themselves as leaders at the market. This year Europe is expecting the heavy crop of high quality apples, the competition will be more severe, and import from Europe will grow again.
This forecast was made by Tatiana Geldman, head of the project “APK-inform: fruit and vegetables”, within the framework of the international conference “Fruit and vegetable business in Russia 2011”/World Food Moscow. According to the expert, Russian production will grow 4—5%, that will be achieved by means of new gardens.
Source: www.fruitnews.ru
Russian market grows approximately 15% a year. Mostly it happens by means of fruit import. The most important factors influencing the market dynamics are the fruit prices and the human wellbeing. Other factors are the growing nutrition culture and fashion on healthy life style.
The most important Russian fruit are apples. The apple harvest in Russia is going to be good this year, 4% more than last year, but Russian apples will be hardly preserved until the new year. Apples come to Russia from more than 40 countries, but the main suppliers are Poland and China. In volume terms the part of apples and pears in the total import volume makes more than 28%. After apples and pears come citrus (26.5%) and bananas (19%). Experts note that the apple import is growing particularly fast from China. A large amount of apples also come from Poland, and pears mostly come from Argentina and Belgium.
During the last 10 years the citrus volume at the domestic Russian market has grown from 471 861 tons to 1 480 695 tons. Last year the total cost of the citrus market in Russia has made 1.2 milliard dollars. This year this index is not likely to change a lot.
Experts notice that the demand on tangerines, oranges, grapefruit and lemons is growing because of the improvement in the social living standard and because of the increasing of fresh fruit sales volumes in the supermarkets.
Tangerines are the most popular citrus in Russia, and their sales volumes cede only to bananas and apples. The demand on lemons and limes is more or less stable, and the popularity of grapefruit has been growing since the year 2005. The main citrus suppliers in Russia are Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, RSA and China.
Bananas are also very popular in Russia. Every Russian consumes approximately 4.5—5 kilos of bananas a year. According to the Russian importers, the high level of banana consumption is due to low prices (not more than 1 dollar per kg). The main supplier is Ecuador (90%). Other banana suppliers are Columbia, Costa-Rica, Panama and the Philippines.
The most important suppliers of grapes to the Russian market are Uzbekistan—45% and Turkey—16%.
The most popular exotic fruit in Russia is pineapple. It makes 70% of all the exotic fruit.
The least popular are pitaya, litchee, starfruit, durian and rambutan. Exotic fruit make 3 % of the cost of all the fruit import.
The most popular formats for fruit sales are wholesale centers and markets. About 70% of all the fruit are sold there. The prices are usually lower at the markets than in the supermarkets. Also consumers think the quality of fruit is better at the markets.
However, experts suppose that the consumption of fruit in supermarkets will grow, because the consumers can combine the purchase of fruit with acquisition of other goods in order to save time.
Source: www.fruitnews.ru
According to the information of “APK-Inform: fruit and vegetables”, the decline of apple trade prices in 1.5 hryvnias per kg, that had passed in the Ukrainian market last week, has activated the interest of the Russian importers to the Ukrainian production. These price updates have permitted to make the Ukrainian apple more competitive in the Russian market and to increase the volumes of export shipments.
At the moment the apple trade price at the Ukrainian market is almost by half lower than in the Russian market. That’s why the Ukrainian producers have also started searching for new purchasers in the neighbouring country.
Source: www.lol.org.ua
High citrus demand in Russia has allowed Pakistan to earn more than $100 million on tangerine export for the season 2010/2011.
Citrus import to Russia has grown 29% in the first months of the year 2011 and has made almost 1.5 million tons.
Ahmad Jawad, the Harvest Tradings executive director, said that “Russia is able to import as many citrus as Pakistan is able to export”, and has appealed to building of confidential relationship with the Russian importers.
Pakistan cultivates 185 thousand hectares of citrus plantations. Its annual production volume is 2.1 million tons, that makes this country the 13-th largest citrus exporter in the world.
Source: www.lol.org.ua