Turkey: All-time record in fresh fruit and vegetable exports
Fruits
Vegetables
Turkiye
Published Jan 7, 2021
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Despite the difficult conditions of the epidemic, the all-time record was broken last year with $ 2.7 billion in fresh fruit and vegetable exports and $ 1.7 billion in fruit and vegetable products.
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Melisa Tokgöz Mutlu, the head of the Istanbul Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association, said in a statement that they achieved very important successes despite all the troublesome conditions brought by the epidemic last year. Stating that in 2020, fresh fruit and vegetable exports reached 2.7 billion dollars with an increase of 20.8 percent compared to the previous year, and said that they were the second sector with the highest increase in exports among all sectors. Stating that the fruit and vegetable products sector increased its exports by 8.8 percent to 1.7 billion dollars, Mutlu said, the third sector with the highest increase in exports was fruit and vegetable products. Mutlu said that the epidemic once again demonstrated how important the agriculture and food sectors are, and that the global contraction did not affect the food sector much. Expressing that the fresh fruit and vegetable and fruit and vegetable products sectors were not affected much by the epidemic, ...
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