In the first half of 2020 there is a decrease in exports of domestic horticultural products
Published Aug 11, 2020
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In January-June 2020, Ukraine exported fruit and berry products worth $ 95 million. This is 18% less than in the same period last year, said a senior researcher at the Department of Economics of Agricultural Production and International Integration of the National Research Center "Institute of Agrarian Economics". Ph.D. Bohdan Dukhnytsky.
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"As before, more than 95% of the value in the commodity structure of our exports of this group continues to be formed by walnuts (peeled and shelled), frozen fruits (mostly berries), and seeds," said the expert. Dukhnytskyi explains that the main reason for the decline in revenues of Ukrainian fruit exporters was the reduction in sales of these items compared to 2019. Exports of walnuts abroad decreased by almost a third - from 33 thousand tons to 22 thousand tons. Exports of apples and pears decreased more than 4 times - from 42 thousand tons to 10 thousand tons. At the same time, sales in foreign markets of frozen fruits and berries of Ukrainian production decreased by 5% - from 18 thousand tons to 17 thousand tons. The defining markets for Ukrainian exporters this year are France ($ 12 million), Poland ($ 11 million), Germany ($ 7 million), Turkey ( $ 6 million), Belarus ($ 5 million), Austria ($ 5 million). The volume of supplies of domestic fruit and berry products to Italy, ...
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