Georgia: Record imports of cabbage and growth in exports of potatoes, January 2022

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Georgia

Published May 19, 2022

Tridge summary

The first month of the current year for foreign trade in vegetables and fruits in Georgia was marked by several significant changes at once. In the vegetable segment, Georgian wholesalers managed to significantly increase the export of potatoes and garlic, while the import of cabbage reached a record high in recent years. As for fruits, in this case, there was also an increase in imports of kiwi, quince and avocados, while exports of tangerines from Georgia, on the contrary, decreased in January 2022. EF Trade Alerts.

Original content

Georgia. Vegetables A surge in demand for potatoes and garlic in Georgia's neighboring countries has led to unusually high exports of these crops from the country in the first month of this year. Thus, the volume of deliveries of both potatoes and garlic from Georgia increased significantly this month, increasing to 3.7 thousand tons and 100 tons, respectively. It should be noted that such a sharp increase in export supplies could not but affect the domestic market of the country, provoking, for example, record high prices for potatoes, which were held at this level almost by the very end of the season. The main buyers of potatoes from Georgia during this period were Russia and Azerbaijan, where Georgian exporters supplied 1.8 thousand tons and 1.6 thousand tons of this product, respectively. Smaller batches of potatoes were also sent to Ukraine (220 tons) and Moldova (140 tons). As for garlic, its export volumes were distributed between Armenia and the Russian Federation in ...

Source: Eastfruit