TOMSK, Jan 21 – RIA Tomsk. The regional department of Rosselkhoznadzor issued 344 phytosanitary certificates to Tomsk companies for the export of cedar nuts in 2019; in total, 6.55 thousand tons of nuts were exported from the region, mainly to China (PRC), is reported on the the agency’s website on Tuesday.
"The department of Rosselkhoznadzor in the Tomsk region in 2019 issued 344 phytosanitary certificates for export batches of cedar nuts with a total weight of 6.554.48 tons", – is said in the report.
It is noted that the volume of export of cedar nuts from the Tomsk region in 2018 amounted to only 1.5 thousand tons.
The main exporter of Tomsk cedar nuts in 2019 were companies from China (6.085 tons). In addition to Chinese companies, pine nuts were supplied to Kazakhstan (420 tons), Germany (41.95 tons), Belarus (5.2 tons) and Lithuania (2.5 tons).Earlier it was reported that in 2019 in the Tomsk region there was a high yield of cedar nuts. At the beginning of October, 50 times more nuts were harvested than in 2018. The last similar harvest season was in 2012.
It was also reported that in 2019, 56 Tomsk food producers exported their products to 30 countries. The export volume of wild plants and products from them amounted to 22.2 million rubles.