EF Trade Alerts: Record imports of onions, pineapples and dates, growth in celery exports, January 2023 results in Uzbekistan

January 2023 brought several major changes at once to the foreign trade in vegetables and fruits in Uzbekistan. Imports of onions to Uzbekistan set a new record, while the export of the vegetable from the country was suspended. The export of celery has increased significantly in comparison with previous years. In the fruit segment, changes affected pineapples and dates - local importers continued to increase the volume of purchases of these products. EF Trade Alerts. Uzbekistan. Import The first month of 2023 was marked by a new record for onion imports to Uzbekistan. Import of onion to Uzbekistan, tons As EastFruit wrote earlier, due to abnormal cold weather, Uzbekistan lost part of its onion stocks and was forced to import it. Thus, in the first half of January this year, Uzbekistan became a net importer of onions, a record 18.74 thousand tons were delivered to the country. The shortage of these products in the local market was covered by supplies from Kazakhstan (14.46 thousand ...