Poland has significantly increased its fruit and vegetable imports over the past five years. In 2022, Poland's fruit and vegetable imports, including hazelnut and mushroom products, reached 3.8 billion dollars, while fruit and vegetable exports reached 3.1 billion dollars.
What Fruits and Vegetables Does Poland Import?
Like many other countries in the Northern Hemisphere, Poland's main import item in fruit is bananas, accounting for about 9% of its imports; citrus fruits constitute about 13% of imports. These two fruit groups, which are not grown in Poland, constitute 22% of the imports.
In the fruit and vegetable segment, greenhouse tomatoes rank third in Poland's imports. This product accounts for 9% of Polish fruit and vegetable imports.
It is interesting that Poland, one of the largest exporters of frozen fruits and vegetables in the world, is also a very large importer of this product. Poland mainly buys frozen fruits from Ukraine and after processing sells them to other countries of the world.
In Poland, which is an important blueberry producer, it is also remarkable that blueberries are among the top 6 imported products. Polish households consume this fruit they love 12 months of the year.
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Table grapes, which make up 5% of all fruit and vegetable product purchases, constitute an important part of Polish imports. The supply volume of Moldova, which supplies a significant part of Polish grapes, to this country is constantly increasing.
Other important products imported by Poland in large quantities include greenhouse cucumbers and peppers, watermelons and melons, peaches and nectarines, avocados, frozen vegetables, onions, fresh strawberries, kiwi, fresh broccoli and cauliflower.
Fruits and Vegetables with the Fastest Increasing Imports in the Polish Market!
In the last 5 years, Poland's most significant increase in fruit and vegetable imports; fresh greenhouse tomatoes, blueberries and frozen raspberries.
During this period, blueberry imports increased 4.7 times, or $107 million, frozen raspberry imports increased 3.7 times, or $92 million, and greenhouse tomato imports increased 65%, or $132 million.
Apart from these, in the last 5 years, watermelon has more than doubled, $49 million; Cucumbers increased by 70 percent, 43 million dollars and the imports of other vegetables increased by 4 times, 57 million dollars.