Tangerines harvest season picks up in west Georgia
Top three destination countries for tangerine exports are Russia, Armenia and Ukraine. Photo: Ministry of Agriculture.
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Exports of tangerines amounted to 1,658 tonnes from the middle of October to November 20 , announced the Ministry of Agriculture.
The leading destination countries for exports are the following:
- Russia - 905.7 tonnes
- Armenia - 467.7 tonnes
- Ukraine - 221.9 tonnes
- Latvia – 40.6 tonnes
- Azerbaijan – 22 tonnes
We expect to harvest high quality tangerines this year…So the farmers will be able to sell their product in a high price,” said the Minister of Agriculture Levan Davitashvili.
Davitashvili said Belarus is interested in importing Georgian tangerines.
Last year we exported tangerines in new countries such as Poland, in the countries of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia,” said Davitashvili.
He said that in the future Georgia will try to export more tangerines to these new countries which will support the diversification of tangerine exports in the future.
A coordination centre serving farmers and factories opened on October 16, and facilitates the distribution of state subsidiaries to farmers producing tangerines.
The centre will work until February 1, 2020.
Georgia exported 26,775 tonnes of mandarins during the 2018-2019 orange harvest season, announces the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture.
Head of the Adjara region government Tornike Rizhvadze has announced that tangerines will be exported to new markets in several EU member states this year.
The orange harvest season has just started in Georgia and 240 tonnes of mandarin have already been exported from the country, announces the government of the autonomous republic of Adjara.
Georgia is getting ready for a rich orange harvest season during which thousands of tonnes of citrus fruits will be picked, packed and sold locally or exported.
Head of the Adjara region government Tornike Rijvadze has announced that tangerines will be exported to Singapore, Slovenia and Qatar this year.
2019 will be a special year for farmers taking into consideration the high quality of the tangerine harvest, said Georgian Minister of Agriculture Levan Davitashvili earlier today.
Exports of Georgian tangerines amounted to 21,333 tonnes from the middle of October to December 19 this year, which is 6.2 per cent more compared to the same period of last year, announced the Ministry of Agriculture.
The tangerines harvest season has just ended in Georgia and 31 thousand tonnes out of 50 thousand tonnes of tangerines have already been exported from the country in September-January of 2019-2020, announces the Ministry of Agriculture.
Exports of tangerines have increased 22% year-on-year in the last six months and amounted to 35,400 tonnes, bringing in $17.3 million which is a 16% increase compared to the same period of the previous year.
Otar Shamugia, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, on Wednesday said the country had exported more than 26 tonnes of tangerines, calling the number a “significant increase” compared to figures from the previous year.