Ukraine restores orange imports amid fierce competition between Egypt and Turkey

Ukraine has managed to restore orange imports in the current 2023/24 season, which is already the third in a row to take place under conditions of full-scale aggression from Russia, EastFruit reports. In November 2023 – June 2024, Ukrainian importers have already imported 65 thousand tons of oranges into the country, exceeding the result of the entire previous season, and the final figure, taking into account the missing four months, may well reach the level of the 2021/22 season. Although Ukraine is still far from pre-war consumption figures (for example, in January 2022, orange imports were twice as high as in the same month of 2023-2024), it seems that the country has managed to overcome the crisis of the start of a full-scale war, and the market for imported products has begun to show growth again. In the case of oranges, the restoration of world production and fairly high prices for apples in the past season also contributed to the increase in consumption. Interestingly, ...