At the moment, Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most undervalued sales markets in the world, said Artem Gudkov, co-founder of Global Ukrainian Distribution, Investment and Trading Company Limited (GUDIT), in an exclusive interview with EastFruit about the specifics of doing business and trading in vegetables and fruits in Tanzania and in Africa in general.
Analysts point out that the Netherlands alone exports about 500,000 tons of onions annually to the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. This region also imports tens of thousands of tons of fresh marketable potatoes from the European Union and this does not include seed potatoes.
Currently, Ukraine barely seizes the market opportunities of Sub-Saharan Africa. However, Andriy Yarmak, an economist at the Investment Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) who conducted the interview, noted that Ukraine at least sells minimal volumes of fruits and vegetables to the region – about one and a half hundred tons of fresh apples and several tens of tons of onions. Moldova, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Tajikistan on the other hand do not sell anything to this region at all, not even nuts or dried fruits. Nevertheless, Ukraine does not fully utilize all of the possibilities of Sub-Saharan Africa in comparison with the EU countries.
Source: east-fruit.com