BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 29
By Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
Georgian agricultural exports decreased by 4 percent from January through May 2020 compared to the same period of 2019, Trend reports referring to Georgian National Statistics Office (Geostat).
In turn, the total import of agricultural products in January-May 2020 declined by 17 percent, from $3.58 million in 2019 to $2.97 million in 2020.
In March 2020, the Georgian government announced that additional 16 million lari ($5.2 million) would be spent on stocks of sugar (5,000 tons), vegetable oil (1.5 million liters), and pasta (500 tons) to be created due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The top import agricultural products by value in January-May 2020 included wheat and meslin; fresh, chilled, or frozen meat and edible poultry offal; cigars, cheroots, cigarillos, and cigarettes; sugar and chemically pure sucrose.
As reported, the import of cigarettes declined by 34 percent. The import of sugar grew dramatically, by 152 percent, while wheat and poultry meat imports maintained relatively small increases, of 1 percent and 8 percent, respectively.
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