According to the National Organic Union of Russia, the volume of the Russian market for organic products is €160 million. And 80% of this volume comes from imports.
“The volume of the Russian market is also small and amounts to about €160 million. At the same time, Russia itself produces only slightly more than 20% of the organic products it consumes, and 80% is import. Very few organic products are imported from the EEU countries to Russia, less than 1% of the import volume,” said NOS Executive Director Oleg Mironenko at the round table discussion themed ‘Prospects for the Formation of a Unified Organic Market of the EEU: Developing Coordinated Regulatory Approaches’.
The Russian market of organic products is growing annually by about 10-15%. At the moment, Russia is actively involved in the creation of an interstate standard for all EAEU countries.
“This standard was approved and put into effect on January 1, 2018 and we had a hope that other countries will join this intergovernmental standard. Unfortunately, today we state that only Kyrgyzstan and Russia have introduced this standard in their capacity as national standards, while other countries are still in the waiting period, ” added Mironenko.
Source: fruitnews.ru