In the period from January to May 2024, Uzbekistan exported 722.1 thousand tons of vegetables and fruits, which is 10.4% more compared to the same period last year.
In the first four months of 2024, Uzbekistan exported 514.8 thousand tons of fruits and vegetables. The total value of exports amounted to $298.5 million.
In January-March 2024, Uzbekistan exported 375.3 thousand tons of fruits and vegetables worth 219.8 million US dollars.
In January-March 2024, Uzbekistan's foreign trade turnover amounted to $ 15.8 billion, which is 6.2% more than in the same period of 2023. Exports amounted to $6.4 billion (+10.0%), while imports amounted to $9.4 billion (+3.8%).
The Embassy of Uzbekistan in Austria organized a video conference between Global Export and Austrian partners. The parties discussed the prospects of exporting dried organic agricultural products produced in our country to the Austrian market.
According to the results of the 2023/24 season, Uzbekistan is quite capable of breaking into the top five world exporters of fresh onions. This is reported by EastFruit analysts.
For the second year in a row, prunes have become a real hit in Uzbekistan's exports in the fruit and vegetable segment. Thus, our country supplied 22.2 thousand tons of products, becoming one of the three largest exporters of prunes in the world, along with Chile and the USA.
In the last two months, Latvia has occupied the top line of the rating of buyers of Uzbek onions in terms of supplies, this country accounts for more than half of the exports of these products. Moreover, this season Latvia imported a record volume of onions from Uzbekistan, analysts at EastFruit say.
In August of this year, the volume of exports of Uzbek melon exceeded the total volume of shipments of these products in the previous three months, which was facilitated by a sharp reduction in the gap in wholesale prices for these products with last year's levels and low prices, analysts at EastFruit say.
In the first half of 2023, Uzbekistan exported 6.5 thousand tons of watermelons to 14 countries. In particular, about a thousand tons were delivered to the states of the European Union.