Moldovan producers turn to good account quota of exported plums to EU market

14:51 | 04.10.2017 Category: Economic

Chisinau, 4 October /MOLDPRES/ - Fruit growers from Moldova have turned to good account the quota of exports of 10,000 tons of plums, offered by the European Union. The export in Moldovan plums to the European market grew by 40 per cent in 2017, according to the National Food Safety Agency (ANSA).

Till 1 October, 10,400 tons of fresh and dried plums were exported to the EU market. To fulfill the obligations under the contracts signed with European partners, fruit growers ask for the increase in the quota of plums’ export.

The biggest quantities of fresh or dried plums were supplied to the markets of Romania (4,240 tons), Poland (4,300 tons) Latvia (610 tons), the Czech Republic (373 tons). Presently, the Moldovan plums are sold in tens of countries of the European Union, where the selling price is convenient for Moldovan fruit growers.

According to the National Statistics Bureau, the exports in Moldovan goods to the European Union’s market increased by 14.2 per cent in the first eight months of 2017 against the same period of the last year, up to 778.3 million dollars. The EU’s weight in Moldova’s overall exports is of 63.8 per cent.

ANSA specified that the exports in plums had been made by 96 companies, which have delivered about 40,000 tons of plums abroad since the beginning of this year. A large quantity of fruits was exported to Russia, respectively, 18,415 tons, by 9,000 tons less than in 2016. The geography of fruits’ exports has extended, with the plums being exported, for the first time in 2017, to the USA, Canada, Iraq and other countries.

In late last September, the Rosselkhoznadzor Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia banned the import of 20 tons of plums from Moldova to the Kursk region, on grounds that grubs of oriental fruit moths (Grapholitha molesta Busck) would have been found in the batch of production. This was the second consignment of plums prohibited on the Russian market, after 19.7 tons of Moldovan plums had been stopped at the Krupets customs office in early August 2017.

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor A. Raileanu)

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