ARMENIA: APRICOT EXPORTS INCREASED BY 10 TIMES

FreshPlaza
Aug 21 2008
Netherlands

This year Armenia exported over 7.244 tonnes of apricots, mainly to
Russia, Ukraine and some other European countries, Gagik Manucharyan,
the head of administration of agriculture development of the Ministry
of Agriculture of Armenia informed to ARKA.

According to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture, this year
apricot harvest reached 80.000 tonnes, up 60.000 tonnes compared to
2007. Last year, the exports totaled 780 tonnes.

"There were no problems with export due to work of the Staff of
operative response, all information came to this organization and in
case of problems with exports or purchases, they were operatively
solved ",- Manucharyan said and added that during this period they
received 30 such signals.

At that, the official noted that volume of apricot procurement totaled
7.560 tonnes, including by the processing enterprises.

In total, this year Armenia managed to increase export volumes of some
crops as a result of good harvest this season, last season the spring
frosts seriously damaged agricultural crops, apricots in particular.