TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, September 23. Uzbekistan exported 82,500 tons of peach and nectarine for a total of $62.7 million in the four months since the beginning of the season—from May 21 through September 20, 2023—which is several hundred tons more than the record figure of 82,200 tons worth $61.3 million exported in 2020’s harvesting season, Trend reports.
Over the past month, the prices of peach and nectarine in Uzbekistan have been steadily growing, and current wholesale prices are several times higher than the levels recorded in mid-September of previous years.
As per data provided by the EastFruit price monitoring data, the average wholesale price for peach and nectarine in Uzbekistan was 20,000 Uzbek soums per kg ($1.65) as of September 15, 2023.
This number is 3.3 times higher than on the same date in 2022, 40 percent higher than on the same date in 2021, and exactly twice the level recorded on the same date in 2020.
Meanwhile, Uzbekistan’s trade turnover amounted to $40 billion from January through August 2023, which is 23.2 percent ($7.5 billion) more compared to the same period last year. Of these, the volume of exports amounted to $16.4 billion, an increase of 27.8 percent compared to 2022 calculations.