Turkey: Dried apricot season closed with $399 million exports

Published 2024년 8월 8일

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Turkey's dried apricot exports for the 2023/24 season amounted to 66 thousand 832 tons, generating $399 million in revenue, with the average export price per ton increasing by 10.5% to $5 thousand 967. Despite a 17% decrease in quantity, the fall in foreign exchange income was limited to 8%. The country aims to export 107 thousand tons in the 2024/25 season to a diverse range of markets, including the United States, India, Australia, China, Japan, Brazil, and South Korea, with the United States being the demand leader with $63.6 million. The Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters' Association played a key role in these exports, contributing $195 million.

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In dried apricots, where Turkey is the world leader in production and export, the 2023/24 season was realized as 66 thousand 832 tons for 399 million dollars. While dried apricot exports were 80 thousand 388 tons in quantity in the 2022/23 season, their foreign exchange equivalent was 434 million 272 thousand dollars. While the average export price of dried apricots was 5 thousand 402 dollars per ton in the 2022/23 season, it increased by 10.5 percent to 5 thousand 967 dollars in the 2023/24 season. Thanks to this increase, dried apricot exports decreased by 17 percent in quantity, while the decrease in foreign exchange income was limited to 8 percent. Işık: “We are targeting 107 thousand tons of dried apricot exports in the 2024/25 season” Stating that they entered the 2024/25 season with the goal of a ‘Golden Year’ in yellow apricots, Mehmet Ali Işık, Aegean Exporters’ Association Sustainability and Organic Products Coordinator and Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ ...

Source: Iha