Dried Fruits and Vegetables

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that Türkiye’s investment in viticulture has resulted in a production capacity of 1.2 million decares of seedless sultana grapes in the Manisa-Denizli-İzmir triangle. Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products …

Following the fresh fig season in Aegean province of Aydın, the dried fig season has commenced. To maintain and improve the quality of dried figs, laboratory tests are being conducted and new technological devices are being utilised to combat aflatoxin and ochratoxin in figs. State-of-the-art devices have replaced special dark …

Press release… The 2024/25 season for seedless raisins went down in history for Türkiye. While exports reached 153,593 tonnes, the lowest export volume in the last 25 years, export revenues reached 546.5 million dollars, the highest foreign exchange income to date. Türkiye had earned 489 million dollars in revenue with …

Press release… In the January-August period of 2025, 175,000 tonnes of hazelnuts were exported from Türkiye, generating 1.467 billion dollars in foreign currency inflows. Compared to the same period of the previous year, these exports decreased by 7 percent in quantity and 5 percent in value. Mehmet Cirav, Chairman of …

Malatya Turgut Özal University’s Apricot and Apricot Products Development Application and Research Centre has published the Dried Apricot Foreign Trade Report for August 2025. The report includes information on the dried apricot sector, a driving force in Malatya’s economy, for August 2025 and the first eight months of the year. …

Press release… A new solar power plant and specialized training in pistachio cultivation are enhancing Uzbekistan’s capacity for large-scale ecosystem restoration and sustainable forest management. Complementing this technological advancement with on-the-ground expertise, another project activity gathered together more than 30 specialists to participate in a hands-on training programme to establish …

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 …