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The fruit of paradise, dried figs, left the 2023/24 season behind with an export amount of 292 million dollars with an increase of 12 percent. Türkiye had left the 2022/23 season behind with 259 million dollars of dried fig exports.
Dried fig exports decreased by 13 percent in quantity from 73 thousand 337 tonnes to 63 thousand 762 tonnes.
Despite the decline in quantity, Turkish exporters have managed to hike the average export price of dried figs by 29 percent in dollar terms from 3 thousand 545 dollars to 4 thousand 580 dollars and Türkiye’s foreign exchange earnings in the 2023/24 season reached 292 million dollars with an increase of 12 percent.
Stating that Türkiye is the world leader in dried fig production and exports, Aegean Exporters‘ Associations Sustainability and Organic Products Coordinator Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association President Mehmet Ali Işık emphasized that they achieved success in the 2023/24 season by acting in cooperation as producers, traders, universities, public and exporters.
Highlighting that they are working to establish a system from the farmer to the shelf as a sector in order to avoid problems due to aflatoxin and ochratoxin in dried figs, Işık said, “For many years, we have distributed cradles and marrow bags to producers in order not to enhance the frequency of control in the European Union, our largest export market. In the 2023/24 season, we purchased and distributed UV lamps within the budget in order for our exporter companies that received the product from the producers to carry out their controls. We also continued our distribution of marrow bags to our producers. In our Dried Fig Sector Board, all parties of the sector are working to ramp up the total quality.”
Emphasizing that the 2024/25 season has started in dried figs, Işık added, “We expect a yield similar to the 2023/24 season and that we target 300 million dollars from dried fig exports.”
