Potato and nut imports record with quince and kiwi exports for December 2022 results in Georgia

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Georgia

Published Mar 9, 2023

Tridge summary

The final month of 2022 in the foreign trade of vegetables and fruits in Georgia was marked by the setting of a new record in the import of potatoes. Thus, the country continues to increase the import of these products from abroad. At the same time, the export of root crops continues to fall further; in December 2022, supplies from Georgia were extremely low. Also, in the last month of 2022, Georgian importers increased the import of cashew nuts by almost 9 times compared to December 2021.

Original content

December 2022 turned out to be successful for Georgian quince and kiwi exporters as well. EF Trade Alerts. Georgia. Potato In December 2022, Georgia continued to actively increase potato imports. The reason for this was the poor harvest of the root crop in Samtskhe-Javakheti, the key producing region of Georgia, and the seasonal depletion of local stocks, which EastFruit has repeatedly written about. The situation also affected the export of these products, the supply of Georgian potatoes abroad continued to decline sharply. As a result, almost 5.7 thousand tons of potatoes were imported to the Georgian market in December (more than 43 times more than in the same period in 2021). At the same time, only 74 tons were exported from the country, which is 28 times less than in December last year. Potatoes were supplied to Georgia mainly from Russia (3 thousand tons), Belarus (2 thousand tons), less significant volumes - from Ukraine, Israel, Turkey, Germany. Georgian producers ...

Source: Eastfruit