Turkiye: Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters Association closed the 2022-2023 season with record exports

Mehmet Ali Işık, President of the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters Association, stated that they closed the 2022-2023 season with record exports and that they aim to break a new record with 75 thousand tons of dried fig exports in the new season. In his statement, Işık reminded that they reached the highest figure in dried fig exports across Turkey in terms of quantity last season with 73 thousand 388 tons, and that they had the second best season in terms of value with 260 million dollars. Noting that the new season of dried figs started on October 6 and that they made a hopeful start to the 2023-2024 season, Işık said: "The more than 100-year success story of the Turkish producer and exporter continues strongly. We, as all segments of the production and export chain, are working devotedly to ensure that our dried figs, which are on the World Health Organization's list of healthy foods, get the value they ...