BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 12
Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
Georgia exported 9.9 tons of cherries in May 2021, Trend reports via the EastFruit portal.
Agrostor is one of those Georgian companies whose products are sold in Qatar, within the LuLu hypermarket chain.
This season, Agrostor has already prepared 3.5 tons of cherries for export to Qatar. According to the company spokesman Zurab Alavidze, 2020 was unsuccessful year for fruit exports to Qatar due to the cancellation of most flights, but this year started off positively.
Alavidze expects that this season exports of fruits from Georgia to Qatar will be regular.
“I think that two flights a week is quite realistic. That is, if we continue the supplies only to the LuLu supermarket chain. If we manage to find other partners, then we will be able to export up to one and a half tons of fruit daily by air,” said Alavidze.
According to EastFruit, 2020 was an outstanding year for the exports of cherries from Georgia.
Some 504 tons of fresh cherries were exported, the highest figure in the last six years. Compared to 2019, the export of cherries in 2020 has almost tripled.
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