Import of 50 thousand tons of Turkish tomatoes will not harm Russian producers, Tkachev says

The Minister said that the import of tomatoes from Turkey can be established in the off-season, UkrAgroConsult reports.

Supplies of Turkish tomatoes to Russia in the offseason will not take a significant share in the total export of vegetables from abroad, said the Minister of agriculture of Russia Alexander Tkachev.

"Of course, we must first, letting Turkish tomatoes to the Russian market, to take care of a Russian manufacturer, we will absolutely monitor the market. If the import of Turkish tomatoes in the off-season: winter, early spring when we have our own tomatoes. But we must not forget that we lack around 1.5 million tons of vegetables, and we have this huge amount we import today from Azerbaijan, Morocco, Uzbekistan, China, Israel etc., therefore, if Turkish tomatoes will be about 50 thousand, and we import about more than a million, of course it is neither cold nor hot, as they say", — said Tkachev channel "Russia 24".