Turkey targets 1 billion dollars revenue from tomatoes by 2023

Fresh Tomato

Turkiye

Published Feb 17, 2022

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Last year, 729 million dollars of foreign currency inflow was provided to the country from tomatoes and tomato products, and 1 billion dollars of export is targeted until 2023. According to the information compiled by the AA correspondent from the Aegean Exporters' Association (EIB), Turkey is among the most important countries in the world in tomato production with an annual 14 million tons. Tomatoes and products such as sauce, ketchup and tomato juice obtained from tomatoes stand out as important export products.

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In 2021, Turkey earned $729 million in foreign exchange revenue from the exports of tomatoes and products made from tomatoes, with an increase of 20 percent compared to the previous year. Fresh tomato exports accounted for 49.7 percent of the total exports in this area. While 313 million dollars of foreign exchange was obtained from fresh tomatoes in 2020, this figure reached 363 million dollars in 2021 with an increase of 16 percent. Fresh tomatoes started 2022 fast. In January 2022, exports increased by 23 percent compared to the same period of the previous year and reached 43.6 million dollars. Last year, Turkey exported fresh tomatoes to 53 countries. Russia is the country with the highest demand for fresh tomatoes with 68 million dollars. This country was followed by Romania with 58 million dollars and Bulgaria with 41 million dollars. Tomato paste came after fresh tomatoes in tomato and tomato products exports with $208 million. The increase in tomato paste exports was ...

Source: Sondakika