RUSSIA INCREASES THE QUOTA FOR TOMATOES IMPORTED FROM TURKEY...
Russia on Tuesday increased the quota for tomatoes imported from Turkey from 150,000 to 200,000 tons. "Approve the permitted volume of import of the product ‘Tomatoes fresh or chilled' – 200,000 tons," the Russian Agriculture Ministry said in a decree published on Russia's official web portal of legal notices. The decision comes after hundreds of trucks carrying around 5,000 tons of tomatoes from Turkey were last week reported to have been stranded for over a week in the buffer zone between Russia and Ukraine, waiting for Russia to officially increase its quota. Thousands of tons of tomatoes were left waiting at the border at risk of going to waste, causing a potential loss of up to $30 million. In February, producers started to send additional products to the Russian border after reports that Russia's agriculture ministry was set to increase the quota of Turkey's tomato import quota by 50,000 tons to 200,000 tons. Russia’s agriculture ministry in late Janua...