Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

Press release… Aegean Region expects 434 thousand 116 tons of harvest in citrus… Tangerine yield will increase, orange will drop… The indispensable of the winter months, natural vitamin storage, the antidote of Covid-19, citrus products in the Aegean Region were estimated to be 434 thousand 116 tons in the 2020/21 …

Press release… Stating that 79 percent of banana consumption in Turkey is covered by domestic production, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Dr. Bekir Pakdemirli said that the production, which was 95 thousand tons in 2002, increased by 6 times and reached 550 thousand tons. Noting that banana production has increased …

Press release… Farmers of Beydağ (a district of İzmir province) have kicked off to caprify for figs, one of the important livelihoods of the district, in order to get the product to be more qualified and productive. Fig producers started working to get quality products in the new season. Male …

Banana production in Turkey could reach a sufficient level to meet the entire domestic demand by 2023, according to the country’s leading banana growers. Ahmet Şeref Gümüş, the president of the Anamur Chamber of Agriculture, told Anadolu Agency (AA) Sunday that the number of greenhouses continues to increase in the …

Turkey closed its doors to imported melons! Watermelon tax has been increased to 300 dollars from 75 dollars on imports. This decision has delighted the farmers in Adana province where 20-25 percent of water melons produced in Turkey. Yüreğir District Chamber of Agriculture President Mehmet Akın Doğan said, “We have …

Farmers who live in citrus producing provinces hit hard by hot African sourced hot weather. Due to temperatures exceeding 40 degrees, almost no fruit left on branches of orange, lemon, tangerine and grapefruit trees. Erdemli (a district of Mersin province) Chamber of Agriculture President Rasim Şahin said that 70 percent …

On top of the avocados, kiwis and cape gooseberries they are already growing, Turkish farmers continue to lean toward new alternatives, producing different types of tropical fruit that can easily adapt to the Mediterranean region. Many products are planted in the region, with the most popular being bananas, avocados, passion …

Rize Commodity Exchange (RTB) Chairman Mehmet Erdoğan said that tea lovingly consumed in Turkey where the most consumption per capita in the world… Stating that tea consumption has increased in Turkey, Erdoğan also noted, “There is a stock of around 70 thousand tons in the store of ÇAYKUR transferred from …

This year 50 million units of avocados are targeted in around 40 000 hectars in Antalya’s Alanya county where about 80 percent of the production provided in Turkey. Avocado started harvesting in the region and is expected to be exported to countries such as Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Iran. …

Osmaniye Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Sağlam said that despite its exhausting harvest, okra is one of the highest yielding alternative products. Sağlam said that a decare area planted okra’s turnover of about 10 thousand liras. After deduction of the cost which is around 5 thousand liras, the …