Lack of Uzbek pomegranate exports at the height of the season

At the beginning of September 2023, EastFruit wrote about record high prices for pomegranate in Uzbekistan and the lack of exports of these products in the first month of the current season. A month later, prices for pomegranate in the country’s domestic market also remain at a high level, and shipments to foreign markets have not begun. Usually in September, the export of Uzbek pomegranate enters an active phase, and the current situation indicates that this season the volume of supplies of these products to foreign markets is likely to be very low. This year, the harvest of early pomegranate varieties started in the second ten days of August - about two weeks later than last year. Manufacturers shipped the first small batches of these products at prices of 30,000 sum/kg ($2.5), but by the beginning of September prices dropped to 20,000 - 22,000 sum/kg ($1.65 - $1.81). A month later, as of early October of this year, prices for these products also remain at a record high, ...