Moldovan fruit exporters will double the number of sales markets in 2022

Published 2023년 1월 2일

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Moldova's fruit industry, particularly apples, has been significantly impacted due to a small harvest caused by drought and the loss of the largest export market, Russia, following an embargo. Despite these challenges, including the geopolitical situation and logistical difficulties, the industry has found resilience by expanding its export markets from 18 to 30 countries in 2022. Moldova Fruct, the association of fruit growers and exporters, is optimistic about selling the 100,000 tons of apples in storage and expects to continue selling most of its apples to CIS countries, with a slight shift to the Middle East. However, lower income is expected due to unchanged export prices, a smaller harvest, and inflation.

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"We were able to export fewer apples in November, which is primarily due to the small harvest this year," says Iurie Fala of Moldova Fruct, the association of fruit growers and exporters of Moldova. After our series of articles in September about the fruit industry in this small former Soviet state squeezed between Ukraine and Romania, which, until the Russian embargo in August of this year, sold 95% of its enormous apple production in Russia, we again took up this penultimate week of the year contact the CEO of the growers' association to find out. This time we mainly talked about apples, although Moldova is also very strong – as our visit to the country showed at the end of this summer – in plums, grapes and cherries. What we didn't talk about – because when we called the CEO, the news wasn't out yet – is that the country's security services see a very high risk of a Russian invasion. "The question is not when Russia will launch an offensive against Moldova, but when it will," ...

Source: AGF