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Ferhat Gürüz: Our export target for 2028 is 6.2 billion dollars

Press release…

Ferhat Gürüz, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association, announced that Turkey’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports in 2024 reached 3.4 billion dollars.

Reminding that according to the Medium Term Programme, Türkiye has set 375 targets in total goods exports in 2028, Ferhat Gürüz said, “We have more than enough potential to double the export figures. By meeting the macro needs in financing, customs capacity, logistics, production, labour force, technical barriers, legislation, technology, we aim to export 6.2 billion dollars worth of fresh fruits and vegetables by the end of 2028.”

‘We realised 27 percent of our total exports to Russia’

Pointing out that the annual exports of the sector according to product groups and countries, Gürüz explained, “In the past year, we evaluated 4 million 193 thousand tonnes of products in international markets. In the list of products we exported the most in the said period, tangerine ranked first with a value of 476 million dollars, tomato ranked second with a value of 427 million dollars and lemon ranked third with a value of 357 million dollars.”

“Last year, we achieved the highest increases in export volume in potatoes, plums, peaches, oranges, apricots, pomegranates and figs. Russia, Germany and Romania were the top three countries to which our sector exported the most. We exported 872.3 million dollars to Russia, 354 million to Germany and 289 million dollars to Romania. The countries where we achieved the highest increases in export volume in 2024 were Iraq, Georgia and Saudi Arabia,” Gürüz added…

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