Ukraine: Record export of frozen raspberries and drop in export of melons

August for the foreign trade in fruits and vegetables in Ukraine was particularly successful in the berry segment. Thus, the export of frozen raspberries this month reached record levels, and the country also managed to significantly increase the export of fresh raspberries in comparison with 2020. Meanwhile, the situation in other segments was not so rosy. Exports of melons from the country reached one of the lowest rates in recent years, while imports of grapes, on the contrary, rose sharply. There were no surprises in the vegetable segment either, and the export and import indicators did not particularly stand out from the expected trends. EF Trade Alerts. Frozen berries In August of this year, Ukrainian freezers managed to export almost 6 thousand tons of frozen raspberries, which was 2.7 times higher than in the same month of the previous year! Moreover, the sale of raspberries for freezing and their subsequent export turned out to be so interesting for the players of the ...