Poland is the fastest growing country in the world to increase imports of berries, including from Ukraine

EastFruit continues to share interesting points from the presentation of FAO economist Andriy Yarmak during the final berry event of Moldova for 2023 called “Berry Market 2023”, organized by the association of berry growers of Moldova “Pomuşoarele Moldovei”. According to the expert, among the 10 fastest growing markets for berries in the world, Poland was the leader in terms of relative growth rates of imports. On average, Poland annually increased its berry imports by 24% or $68 million, and the main reason for this was the opportunity to purchase inexpensive frozen berries from Ukraine. As we wrote earlier, in the last 5 years Ukraine has been the world champion in terms of growth rates of berry exports, and Poland was the main market for Ukraine. At the same time, both fresh and frozen berries were included in the calculation. Poland most rapidly increased imports of fresh blueberries and frozen raspberries. It was these categories that were the fastest growing in the export of ...