Poland enters competition with Chile and Peru for China's blueberry market

Demand for blueberries in China is huge, despite the efforts of Chinese berry growers to increase production with new highly productive varieties. The market is constantly fueled by the positioning of blueberries as a superfood for health, and the large-scale processing of blueberries for yogurts and muesli. Chile and Peru are the main suppliers of fresh blueberries to the Chinese market, as the local blueberries are mostly processed. Now Poland, a country known for its developed fruit and berry sector, is entering the Chinese fresh blueberry market. At the peak of production, Polish blueberries gained access to the Chinese market and became the second position of Polish fruit and berry products allowed to be imported into China after apples, according to the Produce Report portal: “From June 20 to the parties signed a phytosanitary protocol on the export of fresh blueberries from Poland to China. On June 28, the GACC officially announced on its website that fresh Polish ...