Tangerines have become more expensive in Russia

Since the beginning of the year, prices for tangerines, one of the popular goods for the upcoming New Year's table, have increased by 70 percent. The Telegram channel of the SHOT news agency writes about this with reference to its own sources in large retail chains. The report cited the current ruble exchange rate, rising transportation costs, problems with supplies from Israel, and a poor harvest of this fruit in other large exporting countries and regions as the reasons for the rise in price. In particular, in Abkhazia the harvest is expected to be 20 thousand tons less than last year’s level, and it will be significantly less in Azerbaijan. One of the main reasons for this, in particular, was, of course, unfavorable weather conditions. Russia remains the world's main buyer of peaches Initially, Russia planned to solve this problem through supplies from Iran and Turkey. However, Rosselkhoznadzor banned the import of shipments of more than 400 tons from these countries due to the ...