date:Oct 22, 2013
the opportunity to sell more and more fresh fruit and vegetables in Russia (table 3).
A lot less top fruit from Belgium
Belgium mainly supplies top fruit to Russia. The smaller supply of top fruit in the last season explains the strong decline of Belgian export to Russia. The export of fresh vegetables also decline strongly last year (mainly due to less export of carrots). There was a recovery in the first half of this year (table 13).