Turkey: Dry fruit exports run to 1.5 billion dollars

Published 2021년 10월 31일

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Turkey's dried fruit sector has experienced an 11% increase in exports, reaching $1.3 billion in the first nine months of 2021, with a 2% increase in quantity exported. The sector aims to surpass $1.5 billion in exports for the first time in history by the end of the year. The country leads in the production and export of seedless raisins, dried apricots, and dried figs, with pistachio exports seeing a 112% increase. The sector plans to achieve its goals with the "Turkish Dried Fruits" project and by diversifying its markets in the United States, Russia, Japan, China, Brazil, and India.

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The dried fruit sector, which is one of the traditional exporting sectors of Turkey, increased its exports by 11 percent from 927 million dollars to 1 billion 30 million dollars in the January-September period of 2021. Dry fruit exports on the basis of quantity It increased from 327 thousand tons to 332 thousand tons with an increase of 2 percent. The Turkish dried fruit industry, which left 2020 behind with an export of 1.4 billion dollars, aims to exceed the 1.5 billion dollars threshold by the end of 2021 for the first time in its history. Stating that dried fruit exports have been stuck in the range of 1.3-1.4 billion dollars for many years, Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters' Association Chairman Birol Celep said that they were happy to exceed the 1 billion dollars threshold in the January-September period of 2021, He stated that with the export shipments to be made in the last quarter of the year in fig and pistachio exports, they are at the point where they will ...

Source: Sondakika