INDUSTRIAL PEACH (PRUNUS PERSICA (L.) BATSCH) PRODUCTION IN RUSSIA AND ABROAD

This paper analyzes the scientific literature on the current state of peach crop in Russia and various countries throughout the world, its economic significance and value. The results of biochemical analysis are presented; the productivity and yield of various cultivars are shown. The dynamics of global peach fruit production and changes in cultivated areas in the Russian Federation and countries of Western Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Africa, etc. are described. The dynamics of imports and exports in various countries, as well as individual successes of import substitution in Russia are presented. The work aims to summarize some results of peach fruit production carried out in various countries over the past decade. Information from various sources was searched and analyzed on the subject under study; databases e-Llibrary, Scopus, Web of Science, reviews of conferences such as Article, Conference Paper, Book, as well as Journal, Book, Conference Proceeding for the period from 2012 to 2022 were used. The official data of the Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Statistics Division) (Statistics Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), FAO - Food, the Federal State Statistics Service, as well as statistical reports for the period from 2018 to 2022 were used. In the world, peach is considered one of the promising stone crops. The main, dominant producers of peach fruits are China, Italy, Spain, the USA, and Greece. In Russia, there is still insufficient cultivation of peach fruit products. Its import is 38.7 thousand tons of fruits (2022), which exceeds the volume of own production cultivation. The main task is still to develop peach growing in the Russian Federation and to reduce imports of peach fruits from Abroad.