Azerbaijan starts exporting tomatoes to one more country
- 27 December, 2021
- 11:29
In the first ten months of this year, 120,342.35 tons (-25.1% from 2020) of tomatoes worth $ 129.65 million (-24.9%) were exported from Azerbaijan, Report informs, citing State Statistics Committee.
After a two-year and three-month hiatus, Azerbaijan resumed tomatoes exports to Latvia. Tomatoes have not been supplied to Turkmenistan from Azerbaijan for at least the last ten years (note: official public trade statistics are available until 2011).
The countries to which Azerbaijan supplied tomatoes in January-October 2021:
| Country | Volume, tone | Annual dynamics | Worth, thousand US dollars | Annual dynamics |
| Russia | 115,749.73 | -26.4 % | 127,504.78 | -25.8 % |
| Ukraine | 1,456.37 | -38.2 % | 664.64 | -34.8 % |
| Belarus | 765.49 | 20 times | 565.26 | 18 times |
| Kazakhstan | 685,62 | 5 times | 352.13 | 5 times |
| United Arab Emirates | 872.24 | 85.4 % | 228.99 | 89.4 % |
| Georgia | 598.12 | 62 times | 171.99 | 72 times |
| Poland | 71.25 | - | 66.98 | - |
| Qatar | 53.4 | - | 55.16 | - |
| Latvia | 36 | - | 20.56 | - |
| Moldova | 17.6 | - | 8.57 | - |
| Estonia | 18.16 | 10.4 % | 7.17 | -56.5 % |
| Turkmenistan | 18.37 | - | 5.51 | - |
During the reporting period, the country imported 845.5 tons of tomatoes worth $684.100, which is 5.3 times more in value and 3.5 times more in quantity than in the same period last year. Tomatoes were imported to Azerbaijan from 7 countries.