OREANDA-NEWS. June 05, 2014. As it was informed in the National Bureau of statistics, income from sales of fruits and vegetable canned goods in January-March 2014 made up 550,9 million lei.

The total cost of products shipped during this period on the internal and foreign market, amounted to 515,5 million lei, including those exported products to 454,6 million lei. According to the NBS data, the production of vegetable and fruit juices in natural in the first quarter of 2014 in comparison with the same period 2013 decreased by 31.9% to 3 million 265,3 thousand liters, the output of canned fruit and vegetables has doubled- up to 388,9 thousand tons, and the volume of processing and preserving of fruits decreased by 25.3% up to 45.4 thousand tons.

Tinned food factory of Moldova traditionally exports up to 80-90% of the total production volume. The largest consumers of Moldovan fruit and vegetable canned products are Russia and Belarus. As InfoMarket agency informed before, the production of fruit and vegetable canning production in Moldova in 2013 grew by 13.7% - up to 1 billion 614,8 million lei.

Revenue from sales of fruit and vegetable canning production in 2013 amounted to 1 billion 769,7 million lei, and the cost of shipped at the internal and foreign market of products – to 1 billion 607 million lei. According to the NBS data, the production of vegetable and fruit juices in 2013, compared with the same period of 2012 increased by 4.9% - to 46 million 821,7 thousand liters. Production of fruit canned food has increased in 2,3 times - up to 10 thousand 108,5 and canned vegetables - by 1.4% to 23 thousand 227,9 tons.