EF trade alerts: Record imports of avocados and strawberries - April 2022 results in Georgia

Fruits

Vegetables

Georgia

Published Jul 22, 2022

Tridge summary

April 2022 was marked in Georgia by several record highs in the foreign trade of fruits and vegetables. Thus, imports of garden strawberries (strawberries) and avocados this month reached the highest levels over the past few years, and in the export segment, a record was set for the supply of apples. It is also worth noting that the growth of exports in the indicated month occurred in the supply of onion and peeled hazelnuts, while imports increased in the segment of watermelons. EF Trade Alerts. Georgia.

Original content

Fruit The second month of spring of this year turned out to be especially active for Georgia in terms of developing foreign trade in apples: the country managed to increase their imports and at the same time increase the exports of these fruits. Apple import volumes in April 2022 rose to 1 thousand tons, but still remained relatively low compared to some previous seasons. At the same time, the export of apples from the country reached a record high in recent years and almost reached 4.7 thousand tons, partially compensating for insignificant volumes of deliveries in previous months. In the import of apples, the geography of countries supplying these fruits to the Georgian market was quite wide and included Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia and the Netherlands. As for exports, in this case the list was not so wide, and 97% of its total volume was sent to the Russian market. In the segment of fruit imports, records were set in April in terms of purchases of avocados and garden ...

Source: Eastfruit