Information for fruit and vegetables business in CIS
Ukraine being the largest target market for Georgian fruits
According to Fruit-Inform Project, Ukraine became the largest target market for Georgian fruits due to impossibility of Georgia's exports to Russia. Last season Ukraine's share in total fruit and nut exports from Georgia amounted to about 17%. Germany was Georgia's second largest target market. Among other important importers of Georgian produce were Azerbaijan, Iran, Czech Republic and Italy.
Citrus fruits (mainly mandarins) account for more than a half of Ukraine's total fruit and nut imports from Georgia. In addition, Georgia actively exported hazelnuts to Ukraine. At the same time, Georgia's apple exports to Ukraine decreased in recent years thanks to growth of domestic production in the latter.
We would remind you that the first in the CIS international conference “Apple Business of Ukraine, Russia and Moldova - 2011” will take place at Stolychnyi Wholesale Market (the largest wholesale market of Ukraine), Kiev, Ukraine, August 11, 2011.
As of today, their participation has been already confirmed by more than 200 representatives of the apple business from 12 countries of the world. Schoeller Arca Systems (Sweden/Netherlands), the global leader in the market for returnable plastic containers, is the general sponsor of the conference. The event is also sponsored by Fito-Mag (Russia), supplier of modern solutions for fruit storage.
Besides companies from Ukraine, Russia and Moldova, there are apple producers, traders, suppliers of input, equipment and machinery from Belarus, Poland, the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Kazakhstan and Czech Republic among the conference participants.
The event will be attended by the CIS leading apple producers such as Crimean Fruit Company (Mironovskiy Khleboprodukt), Sad Gigant, Zarya Ingula, Pobeda, Vesna, Bukovinskiy Sad (Svarog Corporation), Mays, Sady Donbassa, Zolotonoshskiye Sady; the biggest processors such as Agrofusion and Yablunevyi Dar; suppliers of seedlings such as Artemovsk Nursery Experimental Station, Holland Plant Ukraine, Hillebrand Tree Nursery; suppliers of packaging and equipment such as Agrofrost NV, Kronen GmbH Nahrungsmitteltechnik, Plattenhardt + Wirht GmbH, Sorma S.p.A., Altracon, Bayer, Insolar, DECCO Italia srl,Ukrainian Pooling Company, GEA Goedhart s.r.o. and many others.
The program of the event is available here. Registration of the conference participants is in progress.