President of the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters Association: Dried fruit export target in Turkey is 1.8 billion dollars

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Published Jan 27, 2024

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The Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters Association is targeting an increase in exports to $1.8 billion in 2024, despite a 3% decrease in quantity in 2023 due to challenges such as earthquakes and rainfall imbalances. However, income increased by 3% to $1.609 billion, thanks to the Soil Products Office's stock introduction. The sector's main export markets are Germany, England, USA, France, and Italy, but there are plans to diversify.

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Mehmet Ali Işık, President of the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters Association, said that their export target for dried fruits this year is 1 billion 800 million dollars. At the press conference he held at the Aegean Exporters' Associations, Işık stated that they successfully completed the year 2023 despite the difficulties. Stating that the exports of the sector decreased by 3 percent in terms of quantity from 497 thousand 637 tons to 482 thousand 744 tons, Işık stated that the income obtained increased by 3 percent from 1 billion 567 million 811 thousand dollars to 1 billion 609 million 467 thousand dollars. Işık stated that 2023 was a difficult year for the sector and the country, that the earthquakes on February 6, centered in Kahramanmaraş, also affected the apricot production regions, and that there were yield losses in other products due to rainfall imbalances, and said, "There was a 25-30 percent yield deficiency in the crop in 2023." We experienced the same thing ...

Source: Sondakika