Ukraine is expanding the geography of vegetable and fruit exports

Vladislava Magaletskaya, the head of the State Food and Consumer Service, told about it, seeds.org.ua reports. "In 2020, Ukraine exported apples to 62 countries (19 thousand tons). For 9 months of this year, 10,000 tons were exported to 65 countries (Austria, UAE, Moldova, Sweden, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Greece, Belarus, etc.). Currently, the State Food and Consumer Services is working on the possibility of exporting apples to Israel, Vietnam, China, Egypt and India. In particular, a new ambassador of Ukraine has been appointed in Vietnam. He is quite active and helps to negotiate the export of other agricultural products, "said the head of the department. When it comes to prices, the domestic market for Ukrainian blueberry producers often looks more attractive than exports. However, the situation is gradually changing and in 9 months of this year twice as many blueberries were exported than in the whole of 2020. As for foreign supplies of blueberries, last year it was one ...