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The improvement in
infrastructures, especially PEACH EXPORTS BASED ON VOLUME AND VALUE (2016 - 2020)
in packing houses and the Year 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
selection of new, modern Volume (KG) 16.171.676 15.519.541 16.908.635 20.826.115 31.494.605
designs and materials for Value (€) 31.485.705 27.981.507 26.299.546 40.629.253 68.548.506
packaging helped the product
become even more appealing MAIN EXPORT DESTINATIONS FOR GREEK PEACHES IN 2020
Country Volume (Kg) % Change % (2019/2020)
History in brief Germany 7.491.742 23,79% 126,77%
➔ According to historical testimonies, Italy 5.587.411 17,74% 132,78%
Alexander the Great brought peaches Romania 3.843.419 12,20% 35,00%
from Persia in 322 B.C. Netherlands 2.657.582 8,44% -19,26%
➔ Since 1938 the cultivation Poland 2.083.341 6,61% 101,34%
has become more systematic. Lithuania 1.489.604 4,73% 35,16%
➔ The exponential growth Bulgaria 1.186.135 3,77% -31,03%
of the fruit begun in 1950. Latvia 962.362 3,06% 49,65%
Spain 855.301 2,72% 668,54%
➔ Today, peaches constitute the first Croatia 684.512 2,17% 3381,04%
in significance tree cultivation between
the deciduous fructiferous trees Others 4.653.196 14,77% 6,90%
in Greece Total 31.494.605 100,00% 51,23%
FROUTONEA 2021-22

