Farmers of Uzbekistan may dramatically expand the area under early cabbage

EastFruit analysts receive reports from Uzbekistan about plans of local vegetable growers to dramatically expand the area under early cabbage. Producers are encouraged by the high profitability of cabbage exports in 2021, especially against the backdrop of record high cabbage prices in Russia now. Since in the spring of 2021, Uzbek vegetable growers made good money on the supply of early cabbage to the markets of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan due to the cold spring and the later maturation of cabbage in Eastern Europe, this year they already had plans to expand the area. However, after Russia continued to import cabbage even while harvesting its own products, as well as after a sharp rise in prices and demand for cabbage in Russia in late November-early December 2021, Uzbek farmers decided to further expand the area under this crop. “In 2021, Ukraine imported a record 4.3 thousand tons of early Uzbek cabbage. Belarus bought 2.7 thousand tons of these vegetables from ...