date:Oct 22, 2013
lier to Russia on a yearly basis, plummeted (-43%). The import of pears from Holland fell even more (-60%). Larger shipments from Argentina, among others, couldn't compensate the total pear import at the beginning of this year (table 7).
A group of producers in the middle of the importing list of fresh fruit shows a strong increase in import in the first half year concerning: lemons (+11%), grapes (+18%), grapefruit (+23%), kiwis (+8%), peaches (+13%), strawberries (+8%) and apricots (+13%). Sm