Tropical fruit exports rise by 85 percent in Turkey
Fruits
Turkiye
Published Jul 27, 2022
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Turkey’s tropical fruit exports exhibited an 85 percent increase last year from 2020 to amount to $13 million, according to a trade group. In the first half of 2022, exports already reached $7.9 million, said Hayrettin Uçak, the head of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, (EYMSİB) adding that the country’s exports leaped 225 percent between 2018 and 2021.
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Türkiye’s tropical fruit exports exhibited an 85 percent increase last year from 2020 to amount to $13 million, according to a trade group. In the first half of 2022, exports already reached $7.9 million, said Hayrettin Uçak, the head of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, (EYMSİB) adding that the country’s exports leaped 225 percent between 2018 and 2021. “In 2018, revenues from the export of tropical fruits were $4 million, climbing gradually to $5 million in the following year and further to $13 million in 2021,” he said. The range of produce local growers sell abroad also expanded to include papaya, mango, pineapple, dragon fruit, coconut, passion fruit and bilberry, he added. Revenues from kiwi exports exceeded $5 million, while revenues from mango rose from only $144,000 to $1.1 million, according to Uçak. The U.K. was the top export market for local mango growers at $948,000, while bilberry sales to Germany climbed from $524,000 to $761,000, he ...
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