Will Uzbekistan increase its EU garlic exports? • EastFruit

This week, the EastFruit crew accomplished the primary commerce mission to Uzbekistan , throughout which pre-selected exporters of contemporary vegatables and fruits from this nation negotiated with giant consumers from the EU and Jap Europe, in addition to with native grocery store chains. As well as, international friends had the chance to get acquainted with orchards, fruit storage amenities, fruit and vegetable freezing enterprises within the Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara areas of Uzbekistan.

Within the means of exchanging views and trying to find promising merchandise for export, it turned out that within the 2022/23 season Uzbekistan can get a very good profit from the export of garlic to the EU international locations. The actual fact is that garlic costs within the European Union are rising attributable to delays in exports and a rise in the price of logistics for the supply of garlic from China. Subsequently, importers grew to become excited by the potential of partial substitute of Chinese language garlic within the EU market with garlic from Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan yearly exports about 3 thousand tons of garlic, primarily to Russia and Kazakhstan. The file quantity of exports was famous in 2018, when greater than 5 thousand tons of this contemporary product have been exported. In 2022, from the very starting of the early garlic harvesting season, its exports remained fairly excessive. Subsequently, it’s potential that already this calendar yr a brand new file for garlic exports might be set.

Uzbekistan already has some expertise in exporting contemporary garlic to the European Union and even equipped garlic to the US. The export of Uzbek garlic to the EU international locations and the USA occurred primarily in 2019. Among the many EU international locations that bought garlic from Uzbekistan have been Latvia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Additionally, yearly, small volumes of Uzbek garlic are equipped to the UAE.