(ANSA) - Rome, July 29 - Exports of Italy's Grana Padano
cheese rose 10% in the first four months of 2015, according to
data released on Wednesday by the Consortium for the Protection
of Grana Padano.
A total of 660,000 wheels of the protected designation of
origin (PDP) semi-fat hard cheese - one of Italy's most popular
- were sold abroad, the consortium said.
Sales to the United States rose a whopping 60%. European
Union markets also performed well, in particular Germany and
Spain where exports increased by 9%.
Sales to Russia, on the contrary, plunged 80% - equal to a
loss of 3.8 million euros - due to an embargo on EU food imports
in response to Western sanctions imposed on Moscow after it
annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
Grana Padano exports up 10% in first four months of 2015
60% increase in US sales