Russian-produced greenhouse vegetables with fake documents are driving down prices on the Lithuanian market

Lithuanian vegetable growers claim that cucumbers and tomatoes grown in Russia are imported into Lithuania through Belarus and Poland using fake documents of origin. The country's Vice Minister of Agriculture Vytenis Tomkus believes that EU restrictions can solve the problem, EastFruit reports. “The main problem is to prevent these goods from entering the EU. There is already free movement of goods within the EU, and without border controls it is more difficult to control, so the main task is to limit the entry of these goods into the common market,” Vytenis Tomkus told LRT radio. In March, he noted, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and the Czech Republic called on the European Commission to weigh in and consider limiting food imports from Russia and Belarus. At the moment, there are no sanctions on food products yet. The Lithuanian Greenhouse Association reported that Russian-grown vegetables, mainly cucumbers and tomatoes, are arriving in Lithuania via Belarus and Poland with ...