TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, July 7. Uzbekistan has become one of the largest suppliers of strawberries and cherries to Russia this season, amid declining local harvests in the Russian Federation, Trend reports.
Alongside Türkiye and Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan is now listed among the top three exporters of these berry products to the Russian market. Experts say a strong cherry harvest in Uzbekistan this year helped boost the country’s export share, particularly as weather conditions in Russia—including early-summer frosts and heavy rainfall—damaged domestic crops.
However, even with this progress under their belt, FruitNews CEO
Irina Koziy pointed out that Uzbekistan still has its eyes on the
prize, concentrating on boosting berry exports to European
markets.
According to the Check Index, there’s been a 9 percent dip in
strawberry sales and a 5 percent slide in cherry purchases in
Russia this past June. Analysts are pointing the finger at rising
prices for the drop in demand—24 percent for strawberries and a
whopping 38 percent for cherries—thanks in part to a pinch in
Russian supply and the soaring cost of imports.
The uptick in berry exports emerges amidst a broader contextual framework of persistent challenges: the trajectory of greenhouse tomato exports from Uzbekistan has been on a downward spiral. During the initial quadrimester of 2025, logistics throughput experienced a contraction of 23 percent relative to the corresponding temporal segment of the previous annum. Industry specialists emphasize that this contraction signifies the fourth successive annum of diminished tomato exports, amplifying overarching apprehensions regarding the trajectory of Uzbekistan’s agrarian export domain.
