Leading up to the holidays, some Moldovan horticultural enterprises made an attempt to increase sales of low-quality apples for export to Russia. Yet, the demand for these products from export traders remained low. As a result, the local wholesale market reacted last week with a tangible price reduction for this product. As EastFruit previously reported, last […]
Read MoreThe current export volume of Georgian mandarin as of December 6, 2020, equaled 9,476 tons and amounted to $4.6 million according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia. The Ministry of Finance of Georgia stated that Russia, Armenia, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Slovenia, and several other countries are among the export markets for […]
Read MoreThe EastFruit team conducted a retail audit on November 24-25, 2020 of supermarket fruit and vegetable departments in Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Georgia, Tajikistan, and Moldova. Results showed the capital city of Tashkent in Uzbekistan as the leader in retail prices in supermarkets. If the high prices for bananas, mandarins, and oranges in Uzbekistan are justified by the fact […]
Read MoreGeorgia consumes more than one million US dollars worth of imported pomegranates every season. Pomegranates are produced locally, some even in large-scale orchards. However, they are mainly imported from Turkey and Azerbaijan at this time. Wild crops of pomegranate trees are widespread throughout Georgia, but the optimal climatic conditions for its cultivation are in the […]
Read MoreThe demand and prices for lemons in the Ukrainian market are actively growing, according to analysts of the EastFruit project. Turkey is traditionally the undisputed leader in terms of lemons supplied to Ukraine but has somewhat reduced the supply resulting in another rise in prices in this segment. Today, lemons on the Ukrainian market are offered for […]
Read MoreThe global pandemic has become a kind of litmus test demonstrating the need for accelerated development of transport communications and, above all, new railway routes, writes Podrobno.uz. Experts predict that after the economic recovery from the pandemic, freight train traffic will only grow and the construction of a China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway is becoming urgent. Foundation for the […]
Read MoreEastFruit reports that in Chile, according to the expectations of local market participants, a significant increase in sweet cherry exports is expected in the new season 2020/21. According to the expectations of the Chilean Association of Fruit Exporters (ASOEX), suppliers of sweet cherries from Chile will be able to increase their exports by a third […]
Read MoreTo date, the greenhouse cucumber market in Ukraine is made up of imported products from Turkey, reports analysts of the EastFruit project. According to market operators, this situation is quite traditional for the Ukrainian market this time of year. Ukrainian greenhouse plants do not supply local cucumbers to the market at this time due to the fact […]
Read MoreOver the past two weeks in Ukrainian markets, tomatoes imported from Turkey have been increasing in price, as reported by the analysts of the EastFruit project. Prices went up because of the seasonal decrease in the supply from local tomato greenhouses since most of the producers had already announced the end of the current turnover. The current […]
Read MoreThe North-Western European Potato Growers (NEPG) has called on European growers to cut their planted areas by 15% in 2021. Fruit-inform, referencing Freshplaza, writes that the countries of the European Union (EU) have reacted differently to this call. For example, the Dutch potato sector is very reluctant to respond to such a proposal. “This reduction […]
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