Ukraine has significantly increased the export of apple juice concentrate, according to the project "APK-Inform: Vegetables and Fruits," referring to official statistics. In the period of July to October this season, Ukraine realised sales on the foreign market of almost 30,000 tons of apple juice concentrate, which is 1.7 times more than in the same period last year. For comparison, in the first 4 months of the 2014/15 season, the shipments of concentrate to the foreign market amounted to 18,000 tons. The main consumers, as of last year, are European Union countries, in particular Poland and Austria. Experts put such a sharp increase in exports down to many European countries moving production to Ukraine this season, in order to reduce production costs.
Currently, experts from the project "APK-Inform: Vegetables and Fruits" are working on the study, "Apples of Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan - 2015: state and prospects of growing, storing, handling, processing and marketing," which will address the main points of the global market of apple juice concentrate.
Source: fruit-inform.com
