From TASS, the Russian News Agency:
Russia’s agricultural watchdog (Rosselkhoznadzor) may ban imports of vegetables and fruits from Bosnia and Herzegovina if it does not receive an explanation why fruit imports from that country sharply increased recently, the watchdog said in a statement Wednesday.
Rosselkhoznadzor is concerned over a three-time growth of the volume and sudden expansion of the range of supplied quarantined products from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Russia. The amount of apples imported to Russia grew 100-fold over the first nine months of 2014 on the same period last year, it said.
Rosselkhoznadzor representatives held talks with the Bosnian side in Moscow and demanded that Bosnia provide documents within a week to prove authenticity of a number of phyto-sanitary certificates accompanying products delivered to Russia. The second demand is to notify Russia within a week of the range and volumes of vegetables and fruits grown in 2014 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
To read the full article, visit TASS' website.
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