Dried fruit sector exports 605 million dollars in the first half

Stating that it was already known before the COVID-19 epidemic, where sectors such as agriculture and food had a strategic importance, Birol Celep, President of the Aegean Dry Fruits and Products Exporters Association, noted that this epidemic experienced on a global scale was well understood. Stating that, with the pandemic, people are turning to healthy nutrition and the demand for healthy food has increased in parallel, Celep said, “During the pandemic period in which the world economy was going through difficult times, nearly half of the exports were made from agricultural products. Where the epidemic is most intense period, Turkey's exports fell 41 percent in April, the decline was limited to very dry fruit sector. Dried fruit exports increased by 1 percent on amount basis in April and decreased by 12 percent on value basis. As the Aegean Dry Fruits and Products Exporters Association, it signed exports of $ 67 million in April and $ 44 million in May, when the quarantine ...