Exports of Murcia vegetables to European countries in 2008

The German market heads the buyer ranking of Murcian vegetables. Hence, between the months of January and October last year, this country bought a total of 301,543 tons of vegetables exported from the Region of Murcia in said period.

 

The United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands follow Germany in the list of receivers of the region’s vegetable produce, with total imports of 278,266 tons, 151,952 and 104,520 tons respectively for the first ten months of 2008.

 

The Eastern European countries, on the other hand, revealed themselves to be new destination markets for Murcia’s vegetables, whereby countries like Poland (19,563 t), Hungary (3,436 t), Slovakia (2,496 t), Russia (2,367 t) and Slovenia (1,075 t) are currently their main buyers in the east.