Russian Fruit Market

China doubles citrus exports to Russia

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According to Fruit-Inform Project’s analysts, the market operators should pay much attention to China’s expansion in the Russian market for citrus fruits. Chinese suppliers managed to increase their exports to the Russian Federation more than twofold in the past 4 years. Such an achievement enabled China to enter the group of six biggest exporters of citrus fruits to Russia and outstrip such important exporters as Spain, Pakistan and Israel.

Mandarins are the most popular category of Chinese citrus exports and account for more than a half of China’s total exports to Russia. Grapefruits are the second major category.

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Chile and Argentina have increased the export of apples to Russia

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Analysts from “APK-Inform: fruit and vegetables” say that in the year 2011 Russia has increased the volumes of apple supply from Chile and Argentina. During the first half-year period Russia has imported 22% more apples from Chile and 90% more apples from Argentina, than for the whole year 2010. In such a way Chile has come in the fourth place and Argentina in the third place among the top apple suppliers in Russia.

The main reason for that has become the shortage of apples in Poland and other countries of the European Community in spring 2011. High prices for good apples and its limited supply in the countries of the European Community have made the importers look for the alternative in Southern America.

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Apple juice concentrate prices decrease in Russia & Ukraine

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Apple juice concentrate prices decrease in Russia & Ukraine.

According to Fruit-Inform Project, apple juice concentrate prices started decreasing in Russia and Ukraine last week. As of September 2, 2011, prices fell to 900 euro per tonne that made processors reduce purchasing prices for raw apples.

According to the market participants, the final understanding of the situation in the market will be possible only after the appearance of Chinese apple juice concentrate made of apples of a new harvest (October-November of the current year). For the present, rather high prices for apples against a background of relatively high apple production in Europe make manufacture of juice.

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Crisis in Russian market for imported fruits

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According to Fruit-Inform Project, sales of imported fruits are rather difficult in Russia in the current season. As of today, wholesale prices for bananas and citrus fruits are on average 2 times lower than a year before that, nevertheless, enables sales to increase only slightly.

Partially such a situation is observed due to importers’ overestimates of sales volumes in summer, as they were based on volumes of last year and the first half of 2011 when prices were high and demand was traditionally exceeding all expectations. However, the demand for imported citrus fruits, bananas and exotics sharply fell in July this year when the supply of cheap domestic vegetables started rapidly growing in the Russian market and early August when the market began to be supplied with local melons, watermelons and fruit.

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Russia is becoming the world leader in citrus import

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According to a USDA (Foreign Agricultural Service by the Department of Agriculture of US) study, citrus is the second most popular fruit in Russia, following the apple.

From 2000 when 471,861 metric tons (MT) of citrus got into the country the import rose to 1,480,695 MT in 2010, a year when the market value for citrus in Russia was around 1.2 billions.

On the other hand, statistic data from the Statistic Committee of the Russian Federation indicates that, in 2010, the consumption per capita of citrus was of 7.3kg, meaning some 20% more than in 2008.

“The market is far from saturated, it has a very good potential for expansion”, concludes the report. Main citrus suppliers of the Russian market are Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa and China.

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Russia increases fruit and vegetable imports from CIS

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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%.

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Situation on the Russian fruit market

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The full report Prognosfruit 2011 was presented in Slovenia, which details the projected harvest of non-EU countries in the northern hemisphere. Russia projects an apple harvest around 1.9 mln tons, reflecting a growth of 4% compared with last season. In absolute terms this growth translates into about 80,000 additional tons in the market.

Russia annually imports an average of 1.3 mln tons of apples, mainly from Europe (EU 15).The southern hemisphere supplies Moscow and St. Petersburg with more than 100,000 tons per year, a volume that varies with existing domestic crops.
Pear production is estimated at 50,000 tons, a decline of 9% over the 2010 season.

Last year Moldova exported nearly 180,000 tons of apples to Russia and hopes that this volume is maintained this season, despite the projected decline in production.

Ukraine is also becoming one of the largest suppliers to Russia and it is expected to export about 150,000 tons of apples this year, taking into account that the harvest will increase by 15% and exceed for the first time one million tons.

The good quality that is expected for the Polish apple harvest also anticipates a possible increase in the share of trade in fresh apples and this would also open the door to increased exports to Russia.

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Russia accounts for nearly 8% of global fruit imports

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According to Fruit-Inform analysts, Russia’s share in the global fruit imports has reached almost 8% in terms of value and even more in terms of volume in the recent years due to rapidly increasing consumption. As Russian economy is recovering there is a trend to consume higher quality products. As of today the size of the Russian fresh, frozen and dried fruit imports is estimated at nearly US $6bn per annum.

The leading import items are citrus fruits, apples and bananas, which account altogether for 55% of all imports. Table grapes are becoming more popular during winter and spring, which provides good opportunities for suppliers from Southern Hemisphere (Chile and South Africa being key suppliers). Similar trend was noted for stone fruits, specifically for sweet cherries. Fresh stone fruits and grapes account for nearly 22% of all fruit imports already.

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Fruit and vegetable prices in Russia higher than in Ukraine

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According to Fruit-Inform Project, wholesale prices for fruits and vegetables in Russia are currently 14.7% higher than in Ukraine. The difference in retail prices is even more significant, as Russia has more expensive logistics and higher number of resellers on the products’ way to consumers. According to our estimates, retail prices for fruits and vegetables are currently 30-35% higher than in Ukraine.

Fruits and berries are averagely 34% cheaper in Ukraine than in the Russian Federation mainly due to considerably lower prices for seasonal fruits. At the same time, imported products (citrus fruits and bananas) in Russia are lower in price than in Ukraine. This fact is connected with larger volumes of the market in the Russian Federation, which lead to lower prices for Russian buyers. In addition, logistics of imported products entering the port of Saint Petersburg costs lower.

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Apple consumption sharply reduced in Russia

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According to Fruit-Inform Project’s estimates, in the season 2010/11 the fresh apple consumption in the Russian Federation was the lowest over last 3 seasons. This is caused by high apple prices in the world and sharp decrease of the domestic apple production in Russia.

“Reduction of the fresh apple consumption amounted to 12% in the season 2010/11. However, the value of Russia’s apple market increased by almost 40% that is connected with more than 50% growth of apple prices in the country”, Tetiana Getman, Head of Fruit-Inform Project, says. “Moreover, the share of domestic apples in the Russian market was the lowest over last 5 years”.

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