The Russian Agriculture Ministry is planning to raise the quota on tomato imports from Turkey to 150,000 tons per year from the current 50,000 tons, it said in a draft decree, published on a government website Thursday.

Russia lifted a ban on vegetable imports from Turkey in November 2017 but set quotas as the relations have been normalized in the last two years. Turkish-Russian ties were strained following the jet-downing crisis that broke out in November 2015 and the Russian government imposed a ban on the import of certain agricultural products from Turkey.

In May 2018, Russia lifted the ban on tomato imports from Turkey but established a quota of 50,000 tons.