date:Mar 22, 2017
ccording to Tetiana Getman, head manager of Information analysis centre 'Info-Shuvar'.
This increase of tomato imports into the Ukraine, seem to be a direct result of the Russian embargo against Turkey. Before the embargo, Russia imported 65-70% of the Turkish annual export, which was between 490-550 tons. Turkey was forced to redirect about 250,000 tons of tomatoes to other countries in 2016. This caused Turkish imports to the EU to triple and shipments to the Ukraine to more than double in 20