date:Sep 11, 2013
ted to 718,497,259 kilos up to July this year, almost a third of total shipments in the period. Table grape exports grew by 12% to 375,000 tonnes.
Meanwhile, blueberries saw an increase of 29%; 52,000 kilos were exported. Plums, a fruit that had a 28% increase between January and July 2013, with 31,600 exported tonnes, follows. Exports of apples and kiwis experienced increases of 13% and 6%, reaching 122,000 and 22,800 exported tons, respectively.
China, meanwhile, became the second largest ma