Azerbaijan supplies 7% of Russia’s tomatoes
According to Azerbaijan’s Minister of Agriculture, the country intends to increase its exports. The…According to Azerbaijan’s Minister of Agriculture, the country intends to increase its exports. The Minister, Heydar Asadov said that in the first half of the year agricultural exports rose by 27.5% year on year, including fruit exports which increased by 13.1%, and vegetable exports which increased by 33.1%.
''Currently 7.4 percent of the tomatoes appearing on Russian markets come from Azerbaijan, while last year this figure was only 1%. What is remarkable is that for the first time, beans, rice, barley and millet feed, dried fruit, and livestock- meat and dairy products, are being exported," said the minister.
According to him, exports have also expanded geographically, along with the traditional Russian market, exports have begun to Iran, UAE, Turkey, Iraq and Turkmenistan.