Dried Fruits and Vegetables

Press release… The TURQUALITY Project named ‘Turkish Tastes’, which is carried out by 6 food associations within the Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) to boost the demand for Turkish food products in the United States, ramped up the demand for Turkish dried figs. Stating that in the first half of 2019, …

Press release… Our dried figs set its route to North America… In the first half of the 2023-24 season, Türkiye ramped up its exports from 179 million dollars to 216 million dollars with a spike of 21 percent in the first half of the 2023-24 season in dried figs, which …

Ramazan Özcan, President of Malatya Commodity Exchange (MTB), stated that Malatya has important targets in apricot exports and said that the new target is 100 thousand tonnes of exports and 750 million dollars of income. “Malatya is one of the most ancient cities of Anatolia and one of the most …

Press release… Exports of Sultana raisins, one of Türkiye’s leading export products in food products, soared by 29 per cent on a foreign currency basis in the 2023/24 season. In the 2023/24 seedless raisin export season, which started on 1 September 2023, Türkiye exported the highest amount of raisins to …

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık, Head of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, reported that Türkiye’s seedless raisin yield decreased by 22 percent to 246 thousand tonnes in the 2023/24 season. Mehmet Ali Işık Mehmet Ali Işık noted that despite the 22 percent decrease in the seedless raisin …

Press release… STARTING THE YEAR 2024 WITH A SPIKE, HAZELNUT EXPORTS CONTINUE THEIR UPWARD TREND IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE YEAR… Türkiye’s hazelnut exports in the January-March period of 2024 realised as 605.865.060 dollars for 77.309 tonnes, with a high rate of export increase of 9 percent in quantity …

Ferhat Şen, Head of TARİŞ Raisins Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Union, stated that the Union will focus on investments to increase capacity in the new period and that they will start the 5 lira per kilogram difference payment they promised for the producer in June. Board of Directors Şen, who made …

DENIZLI – Denizli Exporters’ Association (DENIB) Chairperson Hüseyin Memişoğlu said that 48 percent of Türkiye’s total chickpea exports of 27.9 million dollars were made from Denizli (Türkiye’s Aegean province). Hüseyin Memişoğlu Stating that Denizli region is at the top in chickpea exports with a 48 percent share in the country, …

Türkiye’s competition watchdog has announced it was ending an investigation into Italian company Ferrero over charges that it was monopolizing the country’s hazelnut market. In a statement, the Competition Authority (RK) said the Nutella maker made commitments to resolve complaints from local hazelnut farmers that it was abusing its dominant …

Press release… Stating that dried fruit production in the Aegean Region has shown a great increase in the last 30 years, Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association, said, “Our production of 100 thousand tonnes of seedless raisins has reached 300 thousand tonnes today. …