Ukraine: Competition is growing among apple-exporting countries

Ukrainian apples are under increasing pressure from their closest competitors — Serbia, Moldova, Poland and Turkey. Volodymyr Gurzhii, head of the USPA Fruit company, makes such conclusions from the ongoing season in a comment to the magazine "Gardening in Ukrainian". According to his data, Turkey has already finished selling Royal Hala, Serbia has very little of it left, and Moldova still has it. There are still enough apples in Poland, including Hala, Golden and some other varieties, but this country is in a somewhat advantageous position compared to Ukraine, due to a shorter list of countries with which it has agreed phytosanitary conditions. "For example, unlike us, Poland easily supplies apples to several countries in South Africa, and to several, I would say, "premium" countries in Southeast Asia, Gurzhii said. - In ...