January 12 2015, 12:35 Fruit-Inform

Serbia leads in apple exports to Russia

Russia's ban on apple imports from the EU countries and Moldova enabled Serbia to significantly increase apple exports to the Russian Federation and become the leading supplier having left China and Azerbaijan behind.

Serbia has exported 61,700 tons of apples to Russian since the beginning of the season 2014/15, an increase of 70% compared with July-November 2013 and the highest volume over at least the past 5 years.

For the present, prices of Serbian apples vary between RUB 60-100/kg (USD 1.10-1.84/kg), depending on variety. However, the demand for apples has been gradually going down due to the devaluation of the Russian ruble, which has resulted in an increase in prices of imported produce.