Ukraine has increased pumpkin exports 12 times in five years

Ukraine in 2020 has once again dramatically increased the export of fresh butternut squash and set a new annual record. Thus, pumpkin exports increased by 76% to almost 2 thousand tons. Over the past 5 years, this figure has increased more than 12 times. In monetary terms, the pumpkin brought Ukrainian exporters $ 783.6 thousand in revenues, of which about half a million were revenues from supplies to the UK, EastFruit reports. It is noted that last year the UK imported about half of all Ukrainian pumpkin exported - 972 tons, and supplies to this country increased by 20% per year in volume and more significantly in value terms, since average pumpkin prices have increased. “Considering that the UK imports more than 70 thousand tons of pumpkin per year, then Ukraine has not yet exhausted all the possibilities of supplying these vegetables to the United Kingdom, because the share of Ukraine in British pumpkin imports barely exceeds 1%,” experts say. In addition, in 2020 Ukraine more ...