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Turkey: All-time record in fresh fruit and vegetable exports

Published Jan 6, 2021

Tridge summary

Despite the challenges of the epidemic, Turkey's fresh fruit and vegetable exports saw a 20.8% increase in 2020, reaching $2.7 billion, and the sector was the second highest in export growth. The head of the Istanbul Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association, Melisa Tokgöz Mutlu, credited the reliable and sustainable products, strategic location, early epidemic measures, and rapid decisions by ministries for the sector's resilience. The top five exported products were tomatoes, cherries, mandarins, satsumas, and pomegranates, with Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Iraq, and Romania as the main importers. The association expects a continued increase in demand for sustainable and reliable production and sees opportunities for growth in emerging markets like South Korea, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia.
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Original content

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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