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Blueberries from Ukraine

Ukraine may be known best for borscht, pierogis and vodka, but one of the strongest commodities lately has been the humble blueberry. Exports of the little purple fruit reached record high in August 2017 and were 50 percent higher compared with the same month of the previous year, according to Fruit-Inform. Ukraine’s cumulative exports of blueberries the three-month period of June to August 2017 totaled 1,600 tons, an increase of about 33 percent, year-over-year. Most of Ukraine’s blueberry exports go to the Netherlands (up 19 percent, y-o-y, for the same period), Belarus (up 15 percent) and the U.K. (up 200 percent).