date:Mar 11, 2014
et, import of potatoes declined due to long-term bans on shipments from countries like Egypt and Pakistan. As a result, only 444,000 MT of potatoes were imported - 3.9 percent less than in 2012.
Growth of tomato shipments (by 3.7 percent to 829,000 MT when compared to the previous year) and an increase in capsicum imports (by 12.7 percent to 161,000 MT) resulted from the large number of new Moroccan tomato importers and direct suppliers of capsicum from Israel that entered the market. Israeli c