The Kobuleti cannery received a total of 5 400 tonnes of non-standard mandarins from Georgian farmers in the 2022-23 season, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Adjara Autonomous Republic told EastFruit while summing up the season. read more

Data on measures to prevent land degradation will be systematically added to the electronic map of the geoinformation system “Land Degradation” in Uzbekistan. The Ministry of Agriculture and its structural divisions will monitor it, EastFruit experts inform. read more

The EastFruit team continues to monitor the global and regional onion markets where tensions are heightened due to a series of bans and shocks, which we described in detail in the article “Global fresh onion market review – are prices about to skyrocket?”. read more

EastFruit continues a series of reviews of the frozen fruit, berry, and vegetable market. The first analytical report was devoted to the harsh situation in the European frozen raspberry market and the ongoing price fall. The second one covered the fundamental changes in the freezing market due
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Memojam is a new jam brand of the Georgian berry producer Memoberry LLC, which will soon enter the Georgian retail and export market. read more

The onion hysteria in the region has led to a wave of export bans, and it reached Azerbaijan. As EastFruit analysts have already reported, the exports of very expensive onions were banned by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. read more

The greenhouse complex of the Uzbek-Turkish joint venture Bukhara-Varnet LLC, located in the Bukhoro-Agro Free Economic Zone, is one of the largest projects in greenhouse production using hydroponics technology in the region. Mainly tomatoes are grown in modern greenhouses with a total area of
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Wholesale prices for inshell walnuts in Moldova started decreasing at the beginning of February. Based upon data by theEastFruit monitoring, they fell in price by an average of 7% – up to 28 MDL/kg ($1.48/kg) by the beginning of the second week of the month. This is the level of the
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According to EastFruit analysts, the exports of fruits and vegetables from Morocco to the Russian market dropped sharply in 2022. read more

Selling prices for onions in Ukraine set another record last week, breaking the mark of 30 UAH/kg ($0.82/kg), EastFruit project analysts report. Undoubtedly, the increase in the segment will continue, as there is a rush demand for onions, and many Ukrainian farms have almost run out of stocks. read more

Just a few days after Kazakhstan imposed a ban on the export of onions, Uzbekistan announced a temporary restriction on onion exports, too, EastFruit experts report. read more

A noticeable increase in demand for greenhouse tomatoes in the Ukrainian market, as well as a significant reduction in their supply, stimulate another price increase in the segment, EastFruit project analysts report. Turkey is the main supplier of greenhouse products to the Ukrainian market at
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Onion prices in Moldova started increasing in the third decade of January. Prices for onions of all quality categories have risen by 10-12%, up to 9-10 MDL/kg ($0.48-0.53/kg). Until now, the average price for onions on the Moldovan market has been 8-9 MDL/kg ($0.42-0.47/kg) since the summer. A
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The consequences of the weather anomalies in January for the Central Asian onion market are not limited to the loss of last year’s crop stocks, the subsequent sharp rise in prices, and a series of bans on onion exports from almost all countries of the region. The effect of abnormally cold
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The Georgian spices-producing company Igoeti intends to start exporting about 20 commodity items to the Netherlands, the USA, Kazakhstan, and Japan this year, as well as to strengthen its position in the domestic market. read more

Carrot prices in Ukraine increase each day, according to EastFruit analysts. Limited supply of carrots caused by destruction of the key production regions in the south of Ukraine by the Russian army, keeps pushes carrot prices up. Despite very high price levels trading activity in this segment
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Due to the rapid decrease in the quality of white cabbage in the storage facilities of Ukrainian producers, local farmers began to massively reduce prices for it this week, EastFruit project analysts report. Another factor that affected selling prices in the segment was the decline in demand for
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In January 2023 Georgia has imported the highest volume of onions for January at least since 2014. Wholesale prices have gone up – which was expected. Key suppliers of onions were Georgia’s immediate neighbors. EastFruit’s analysts have researched both the statistical data and
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According to EastFruit analysts, Turkish apple exports in the 2022/23 season continue to lag significantly behind those in the 2021/22 season. As of the end of December 2022, Turkey was able to export 135 thousand tons of new crop apples, which is 6% less than the previous season. read more

For the first time after a three-year ban due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tajik trucks crossed the border of China, according to the Ministry of Transport of the republic. China has lifted entry restrictions imposed as part of the fight against COVID-19, since January 8, 2023. read more