The cheapest fruit is mandarin: 3 lira per branch, 5 lira in the market.

In Adana, one of Turkey's significant citrus production centers, the price of mandarins dropped to 3 TL on the branch and up to 5 TL in the market. Adana, which accounts for 40% of Turkey's citrus production, is currently harvesting mandarins planted on an area of 383 thousand decares. With a yield of between 4 and 6 tons per decare, the mandarins, when first harvested, found buyers at 8 to 15 lira per kilogram depending on their quality in the orchard. Now, however, they are sold for 3 lira per kilogram on the branch and between 5 and 10 lira in the market, making them the cheapest fruit. After agricultural workers initiated a 9-day strike on September 27, 6 early varieties of mandarins ripened simultaneously, and workers could not keep up with the picking, causing many mandarins to be damaged. After the strike ended, the start of the orange harvest also led to an oversupply of mandarins, causing the product to remain on the branch. Mandarins, which are exported to many European ...