Uzbekistan will be left without cheap tangerines by the New Year

Usually, it is the Pakistani tangerine that is the most affordable fruit for the New Year's table in Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries. After its release on the market, prices usually fall by almost half and remain at a low level until the end of the sales season, EastFruit reports. At the beginning of the current season, the relevant services of Uzbekistan discovered that Pakistani tangerines were imported with counterfeit certificates. Moreover, a pest was found in one of the batches. The Agency for Quarantine and Plant Protection of Uzbekistan clarified the situation. According to Nova24.uz, the issuance of permits was temporarily suspended. A pest was found in a recent batch of tangerines from Pakistan imported through the Airitom customs post. Samples of the products were examined in the Central Phytosanitary Laboratory and it was established that the imported fruits contain the red orange scale insect. The quarantine agency contacted its colleagues in Pakistan to ...