Turkey: Dried fruit exports from the Southeast worth 241 million 49 thousand dollars in 9 months

While the increase in dried fruit exports, one of Turkey’s most important export items, continues compared to the previous month, Mehmet Çıkmaz, President of the Southeastern Anatolia Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, evaluated the export figures and said, “When the sector exports in the January-September period of 2024 are examined, dried fruit and products sector exports from our region increased by 13.4% in quantity and 28.4% in value compared to the previous year of the same period, reaching 241 million 49 thousand dollars. Dried apricot exports from our Association in the last 9 months of 2024 increased by 19.1% in quantity and 22.8% in value compared to the same period of the previous year, reaching 100 million 316 thousand dollars; Pistachio exports increased by 38.1% in quantity and 51.3% in value, reaching 94 million 906 thousand dollars. Dried apricots and pistachios were followed by other dried fruits with an export value of 6.6% and an export of ...