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October, 2026…
This year’s bumper apple harvest has, as with many other crops, led to a problem of low prices. Industry representatives, pointing out that in some provinces the prices of ‘second-grade’ apples – used particularly in fruit juice production – have fallen below even the cost of harvesting, state that factories, having lost export markets due to last year’s agricultural frost, are not purchasing as much as they did the previous year, and that this is why the apples are left on the tree.
The high apple harvest has brought with it the problem of low prices. It is reported that apples are remaining on the trees because the prices of ‘second-grade’ apples—used particularly in fruit juice production—are even below the cost of harvesting. Whilst approximately 2,286,000 tonnes of apples were produced in Türkiye last year, this year’s production is expected to reach 4,427,000 tonnes—a 93.6 percent spike—according to the first estimate of crop production. Despite this abundance of apples, it is stated that factories, which lost market share in exports due to last year’s agricultural frost, are unable to purchase as many apples as in previous years. As a result, producers are struggling to find buyers for the substandard apples used in the fruit juice industry…
By Mehmet Hanifi Gülel,
Agrifood Writer,
Source: www.dunya.com
