605 million dollars export from the dried fruit sector in the first half
Published Aug 20, 2020
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With the pandemic, people turned to healthy eating, parallel to this, the demand for healthy food increased. During the pandemic period in which the world economy was going through difficult times, almost half of the exports were obtained from agricultural products. Turkey's exports in the period when the epidemic is most intense 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.
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The Aegean Dry Fruit and Products Exporters Association signed an export of $ 67 million in April and $ 44 million in May, when quarantine conditions were felt the most. With the new normal, we saw that the performance in our exports evolved positively with the onset of rapid improvements in contractions in June. In June, our exports increased by 47 percent to 58.4 million dollars. We experienced an increase of 82 percent with the UK, which is among the top 5 countries we export to, 72 percent with Germany, 70 percent with the USA, and 89 percent with the Netherlands. In the first half of the year, the exports of the dried fruit sector reached 605 million dollars. We exported 271 thousand 240 tons of dried fruit to 134 countries. In the January-June period, Germany was the country to which we exported the most dried fruits with 87.4 million dollars. The UK ranked second in dried fruit exports with $ 86.7 million and the USA ranked third with $ 43 million. France with $ 42 million, ...
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