Exports of tangerines up 34% in last four months
Exports of tangerines have increased by 34% in the last four months and amounted to 31,900 tonnes, bringing in $15.7 million, which is a 37% increase compared to the same period of the previous year. Photo: moa.gov.ge.
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Exports of tangerines have increased by 34% in the last four months and amounted to 31,900 tonnes, bringing in $15.7 million, which is a 37% increase compared to the same period of the previous year, the Georgian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection reports.
Tangerines were exported mostly to:
- Russia – 22,267 tonnes
- Armenia – 5,254 tonnes
- Ukraine – 3,138 tonnes
Georgian tangerines were also exported to Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.
A total of 25,934 tons of citrus worth 13.7 million USD were exported from Georgia in the last 11 months which is a record-high figure, online media outlet bm.ge reports.
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.
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.
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.
Head of the Adjara region government Tornike Rijvadze has announced that tangerines will be exported to Singapore, Slovenia and Qatar this year.
A total of 17,000 tonnes of Georgian hazelnuts have been exported from August 1 to December 26, at a value of 77.2 million USD, the Georgian Agriculture Ministry announces.
Georgian external trade turnover amounted to 14.31 billion USD in 2021, which is an increase of 25.6% year-on-year, express data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) show.
Georgia has exported locally produced goods worth 4.2 billion USD in 2021, which is 26.9% higher year-on-year, the preliminary data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) show. Geostat says local exports in the country account for 73.7% of total exports, amounting to 3.1 billion USD, 29.9% higher compared to 2020.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday said this year’s fruit harvest was expected to hit about 45,000 tonnes of citrus, adding the Government would subsidise collection of non-standard tangerines.