date:Mar 11, 2014
apsicum was priced better than the Spanish product that is traditional for the Russian market, while the possibility of direct container shipments through Novorossiysk considerably simplified its transportation. As a result, shipments from Israel constituted more than a half of the Russian market of capsicum by volume (53 percent). This change affected the average price of imported product. Thus, the growth of capsicum import value amounted to only 2.3 percent.
Cucumber imports were down by 5.5