30% of the apples produced are exported by Turkey

In Niğde, one of the important apple production centers of Turkey, 30 percent of the apples are exported. Niğde Director of Agriculture and Forestry Asım Baş told reporters in the apple orchard, whose harvest continues in the town of Sazlıca, that approximately 500 thousand tons of apple harvest is expected on an area of 230 thousand decares this year. Stating that Niğde ranks 3rd in apple production in Turkey, Baş said, "We are in the first place in Amasya apples. 15 thousand of our farmers produce apples throughout the province. We do not have any problems in the quality, production standard and market of our apples. Our apples are like any other product produced with high quality. "Around 30 percent of the apples produced in our city go for export. We export to the European Union, Western Asian countries, India, Malaysia, Thailand and all countries in the Arabian Peninsula, especially Iraq, Syria, Russia." said. Baş stated that there is a situation to open up to the African ...