Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan imported cherries enter the East China market, will cherry prices be affected?

Red Lantern cherry variety, do you like to eat them? Fruit prices have been high all year this year, especially the prices of those premium fruits, which have risen one or two times, and cherries are one of them. But according to Xinhua News Agency Shanghai on June 15, 2019, Central Asian cherries are entering the East China market in batches, so will cherry prices be affected?

According to a report by Xinhua News Agency Shanghai on June 15, 2019, a cargo plane loaded with Kyrgyzstan cherries arrived at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on June 15. This was the 9th batch of Kyrgyzstan cherries airlifted to Shanghai after China and Kyrgyzstan adjusted the relevant plant quarantine requirements recently. The market for this batch of cherries is the East China region.

According to data from Shanghai Customs on June 15, 2019, since the beginning of this year, the Shanghai port has imported 378.1 tons of fresh cherries from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Compared with the import volume from the two Central Asian countries for all of last year, this is 46.2 times last year's amount, which shows that the East China market will begin to see Central Asian cherries listed in batches. For people in the East China region who like to eat cherries, this is something very worth being happy about.

In previous years around June, the cherries imported through the Shanghai port were not from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, but from North American countries such as the United States and Canada. Now Central Asian cherries have become a new player in the market with competitive quality and prices. This not only increases the choices for Chinese consumers, but also enriches the diversification of trade between China and Central Asia under the “Belt and Road” framework.

So with the arrival of imported cherries from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, what changes will there be in cherry prices in the East China market?