The Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance has allowed apple imports from eight Azerbaijani enterprises and tomatoes produced by 19 Azerbaijani enterprises into Russia as of March 3, 2021.
The resolution was made under the guarantees of the Azerbaijani Food Safety Agency, as a result of a quarantine phytosanitary expertise of product samples during joint video inspections.
The restrictions on the supply of tomatoes and apples from Azerbaijan were introduced on December 10, 2020. These were the result of the systematic revealing of quarantine items dangerous for agricultural production: the South American tomato moth (Tuta absoluta (Povolny) and the eastern moth (Grapholita molesta (Busck).
Source: en.trend.az