Turkmenistan is increasing the expansion of greenhouse tomatoes in the foreign market
“EastFruit experts have repeatedly drawn attention to the rather rapid expansion of the greenhouse business in Turkmenistan …” – this is how the next publication begins on the international information and analytical platform for the business of vegetables and fruits in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
EastFruit has indeed written more than once about the “expansion” of Turkmen tomatoes – and it is about them that we are talking about. In particular, there were materials on the prospect of doubling the area for greenhouse tomatoes in the country in the near future, due to access to cheap natural gas, as well as the fact that Turkmenistan is actively crowding Uzbekistan in the greenhouse vegetable market, where problems with access to natural gas by greenhouse plants are one of the main reasons for the reduction in production.
“However, we are currently receiving information that at the height of the greenhouse vegetable sales season, greenhouse tomatoes from Turkmenistan not only compete in foreign markets with Uzbek ones, but have already begun to be supplied to the market of Uzbekistan itself. There is no official confirmation of this information, but trade sources confirm it,” EastFruit writes.
And adds: “In principle, it is not worth being surprised by the supply of greenhouse tomatoes from Turkmenistan to Uzbekistan. After all, even wholesale prices for these vegetables in the domestic market of Uzbekistan are now at a record level and exceed $2 USD per kg. They are 40% higher than at the same time last year and twice as high as the usual level for this period of the year.”
This publication, with reference to the source, is also posted by the Uzbek resource Podrobno.uz , giving his comments on it: “But the most interesting thing is that wholesale prices for greenhouse tomatoes in Uzbekistan are now even higher than in Russia, where they are usually exported in winter. It is not surprising that Turkmen tomatoes are quite competitive in the Uzbek market at the moment.”
The Uzbek edition also cites the opinion of a climatologist who believes that Turkmen tomatoes are cheaper than Uzbek ones not only due to natural gas, but also stable water supply, even in winter, and this also contributes to the development of greenhouse business in Turkmenistan.
According to the results of a recent study, Turkmenistan at the regional level demonstrates the fastest pace of increasing exports of greenhouse tomatoes and can outstrip Uzbekistan in terms of supplies of these products to the Russian market.
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