Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name:Natalia Karlova Author-Name-First: Natalia Author-Name-Last: Karlova Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Basic vegetables and fruits: forecast for production and prices in Russia in 2012/2013 Abstract: In Russia where the major volumes of vegetables are traditionally produced by household farms, the fruit and vegetable business started developing quite recently. 2009-2010 were favourable for farm producers: market prices for vegetables were relatively high, investing in the construction of vegetable storages began. 2011 was a year of good vegetable crop in Russia. The preliminary data for 2012 indicate the lowering of gross output of vegetables but they are still above the average figures for the 5 recent years. After the accession to WTO imports of vegetables and fruit will be growing. Classification-JEL: E20, E27 Keywords: forecast, production, prices Year: 2012 Issue: 11 Month: October Pages: 55-60 Journal:Russian Economic Developments File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/21karlova.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:21