In 2018, Russia's total berry production volume increased by 1.5% compared with the previous year. This broke the negative trend of 2017, when this figure fell by 5.8%, as revealed by data of the marketing agency ROIF Expert.
Agency analysts noted that 65-68% of the total volume corresponds to cultivated berries, and 32-35% to the harvest of wild plants. 92-94% of all grown berries are currants, garden strawberries and raspberries.
At the same time, no more than 1% of all products grown in the country are exported. In 2018, Russian berry shipments to foreign markets increased by 43% in terms of volume and by 9% in terms of value and reached $ 0.5 million. Berry imports last year grew by 8% in terms of volume and by 45% in terms of value, reaching $ 100 million.
