The strike of agricultural workers left the mandarin hanging on the branch: Its price dropped to 3 lira per kilo

In Adana, one of Turkey's significant citrus production centers, last month's 9-day daily wage strike by agricultural workers caused mandarins to remain in the orchards. The price of mandarins in the orchards fell to between 3 and 5 lira per kilogram. Adana, which accounts for 40% of Turkey's citrus production, began harvesting mandarins in late September over an area of approximately 383 thousand decares. This year, while many crops in Çukurova were affected by agricultural frost, early mandarins of the okitsu, mihowase, early, and primasol varieties were not damaged by the agricultural frost. Yields per decare of mandarins, which average between 4 and 6 tons, found buyers at 8 to 15 lira per kilogram in the first weeks of harvest. However, during the 9-day daily wage strike by agricultural workers, the mandarins remained in the orchards, and many early varieties of mandarins were damaged. After the workers' strike ended, the start of the orange harvest and an oversupply of ...