Dried Fruits and Vegetables

Press release… Dried fig exports reached 58,903 tonnes… Türkiye exported 58,903 tonnes of dried figs during the 2024/25 season, which began on September 25, 2024 and ended August 30, 2025, generating 353,912,000 dollars in foreign currency revenue. Dried fig exports reached 283,416,000 dollars equivalent to 61,859 tonnes in the same …

Mustafa Sacit İnan, an agricultural engineer at the Manisa Viticulture Research Institute, stated that the wire-curtain (wire-display) method improves the quality of raisins, but producers are discouraged from using it due to its high cost. The Sultana seedless grape harvest has begun in Türkiye’s leading agrifood province of Manisa and …

Press release… 15 At the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association’s Advisory General Assembly, a recommendation was made to kick off the 2025/26 dried fig season of which Türkiye is a global leader in production and export, on October 15, 2025. The Ministry of Trade will make the final …

Hazelnut prices in the Alaplı district of Zonguldak province have surpassed 255 TL on the open market and are expected to reach 300 TL soon. Şeref Türkoğlu, Head of the Alaplı Chamber of Agriculture, stated that decreasing supply and stagnant demand are affecting prices. Hazelnut prices, one of the Black …

Tariş Fig Union Chairman Ersin Kacar announced the purchasing prices for the 2025-2026 dried fig season. Board members met at the Tariş Fig Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Union facilities to determine dried fig purchasing prices for the harvest season. Following the meeting, Kacar made a statement wishing producers a prosperous season, …

Press release… Türkiye exported 57,944 tonnes of dried figs during the 2024/25 dried fig export season, which began on September 25, 2024 and ended August 16, 2025, generating 347,840,000 dollars in foreign currency revenue. While dried fig exports decreased by 5 percent compared to the 2023/24 season, foreign currency revenue …

Press release… IZMIR – The Black Orak (Sickle) variety of dried figs, introduced to producers as part of the goal of increasing foreign exchange revenue with new varieties in the dried fig industry, where Türkiye is a global leader, is experiencing a bumper season. The Sarılop variety, which accounts for …

In the Sarıgöl district of Manisa province, housewives prepare delicious fig chips for winter consumption. The ripe figs are sun-dried and stored in glass jars. Fig chips, which have become a favorite among housewives in the Sarıgöl district of Manisa in recent years, are prepared for winter consumption. Ripe figs …

Press release… The Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and producers joined forces to ensure food safety in dried figs, the fruit of paradise, by preventing their contact with the soil during drying and preventing the formation of aflatoxin and ochratoxin. Within the …

Press release… Türkiye, the world’s food warehouse, ramped up its exports to South Korea, one of its target markets, by 34 percent to 145 million dollars in 2024. Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that Türkiye exports 30 billion dollars worth of …