Tajikistan and Turkmenistan “grope” for the segment of early apple exports to Russia, while Uzbekistan is losing it

As predicted by EastFruit analysts, in 2021 Uzbekistan interrupted the trend of annual growth in the volume of exports of "summer" apples. The reasons, in addition to weather anomalies, also lie in the unexpected oversaturation of the Russian market with an apple and a decrease in prices, because stocks in most countries of the region as of May 1, 2021 turned out to be record high. As a result, in Uzbekistan, prices for an apple in the summer were slightly lower than in Russia. In the period from May to July 2021, Uzbekistan was able to export to the Russian market only 1.6 thousand tons of early apples - almost three times less than in the same period of 2020. See also: Russia has made it difficult for an apple from Serbia, Turkey, Iran, New Zealand and South Africa to enter its market Against this background, the export indicators of other Central Asian countries, primarily Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, look very interesting. For the first time, Tajikistan was able to export to ...