Dried Fruits and Vegetables

Nestle Damak and TEMA Foundation (The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats) aim to ensure sustainable agriculture in Antep Pistachio with the ‘Let Our Pistachio Be Abundant’ project they launched in 2011. Within the scope of the project, 2 thousand farmers were …

Press release… USA is the leader in dried fig exports… In the 2022/23 season, the United States was at the top of dried fig exports from Türkiye with an amount of 39.7 million dollars. Dried figs to the USA were 31.9 million dollars in the same period in the 2021/22 …

Press release… There is an excitement to start the new season in dried figs, the fruit of paradise. It was predicted that the 2023 yield of dried figs, in which Türkiye is the world leader in production and exports, will be at the level of 2022. Mehmet Ali Işık, Chairperson …

Pistachios, known as the “green gold” in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, are experiencing harvest excitement. While producers are satisfied with the yield this year, the kilo of pistachio is sold at 110 TL in the field. Pistachios, which are among the important flavours of Gaziantep cuisine, which UNESCO included in …

Press release… In the 2022/2023 hazelnut export season, which started on 1 September 2022 and ended on 31 August 2023, the amount of hazelnuts exported from Türkiye in the 2022/2023 hazelnut export season was 299 thousand 462 tonnes and 1 billion 798 million 876 thousand dollars of foreign currency inflow …

In Türkiye’s Black Sea province of Giresun, producers find the opportunity to dry their harvested hazelnuts in a shorter time by laying them on the roadsides in the coastal area. After the harvest, the producers who separate the hazelnuts from the pulp by hitting the patoza continue the drying process …

Press release… Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) organised a Buyer Delegation Organisation for the dried fruit sector from Japan, which imports 65 billion dollars of food annually, on 24-25 August 2023 through the Ministry of Trade. Mehmet Ali Işık Aegean Exporters’ Associations Organic Products and Sustainability Coordinator Mehmet Ali Işık, Chairman …

Press release… Türkiye’s exports of dried figs, raisins and dried apricots, of which the country is the world leader, surpassed 1 billion dollars… Türkiye is the world leader in production and exports of superfoods with high nutritional value; sultanas, dried apricots and dried figs generated export revenues of 1 billion …

Press release… The Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB) held a “Hazelnut Sector Press Conference” with the participation of Mehmet Cirav, Sebahattin Arslantürk and Tahsin Büyükaydın, the leading hazelnut industrialists and exporters of the region, under the chairmanship of Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan, Vice President of the DKİB. Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan, …