date:Mar 11, 2014
percent, to 202,000 MT, although the price increased as well as the market value. It is worth mentioning that Russian imports of onion considerably grew in 2013 (by 7 percent to 300,000 MT), and the import volume of the relatively small category of lettuce rose sharply by 20 percent (to 34,500 MT).
The largest share of the Russian vegetable market still belongs to tomatoes, which make up 28.6 percent of the total volume of imported vegetables, while potatoes made up 15.3 percent of that. At th