Greenhouse season has opened in vegetables, prices are falling in Turkey
Fresh Tomato
Vegetables
Turkiye
Published Nov 11, 2022
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In Antalya, with the start of the harvest period in greenhouse production, the prices of many vegetables, especially tomatoes, began to decrease. The shopkeepers of the market, against the rhetoric of "tomato will be 50 TL" for the winter period, said, "It is not 50 TL, but it can be 30."
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In Antalya, which is the greenhouse production center of Turkey, the winter harvest season has started in the greenhouses on the coastline. With the harvest of new products that started as of October, the prices of many products and varieties such as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and eggplants went down. According to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), when the total greenhouse production area in Turkey is over 800 thousand decares, Antalya ranks first with 300 thousand decares, followed by Mersin and Adana. Cüneyt Doğan, Member of the Board of Directors of the Western Mediterranean Exporters' Association (BAIB), said that new products started to appear in greenhouses as of October 15th and said, “We can say that all kinds of products are coming out now. Tomatoes, eggplant, pepper varieties, cucumbers all started. Tomato prices are currently between 10-20 TL, depending on the variety and color of the tomato. Pepper ...
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