Dried Fruits and Vegetables

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 …

The harvest of fresh Antep pistachios has begun in southeastern Anatolia province of Gaziantep and prices have risen due to last year’s low yield. The first crop to hit the market is being sold for 500 lira. Traders have indicated that prices may fall. As the pistachio harvest began in …

Wholesale hazelnut prices have surged this harvest season due to frost damage in Türkiye, the world’s leading producer, where the crop yields are expected to shrink this year. Hazelnuts The last major frost-related event, before April, affecting crops in Türkiye, occurred in 2014. Following the frost this year, which took …

August, 2025… Wholesale hazelnut prices have surged this harvest season due to frost damage in Türkiye, the world’s leading producer, where the crop yields are expected to shrink this year. In April, a cold snap, unseen in years, affected a variety of domestically produced crops, pushing hazelnut prices higher even before the …

Sebahattin Arslantürk, Deputy Chairman of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB) Hazelnut and Hazelnut Products Sector Committee, announced that decline in hazelnut productivity raises alarm! Pointing out that productivity, which was above 100 kg per decare in Türkiye and worldwide between 2012 and 2021, has declined to 100 kg …