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Mehmet Ali Işık: We brake record in seedless raisin exports with 490 million dollars

Press release… Seedless raisins closed the 2023/24 season with exports of 490 million dollars… Seedless raisin exports reached 207 thousand tonnes… Mehmet Ali Işık The 2023/24 season of seedless raisins, one of the traditional export products in which Türkiye is the world leader in production and exports, was completed with …

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Dried fig exports run to 300 million dollars!

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Assocaition, stated that they entered the 2023/24 season with an export target of 300 million dollars in dried figs, the fruit of paradise. Mehmet Ali Işık Pointing out that dried fig exports reached 277 million dollars, …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: The first ship in dried figs will depart on 25 September

Press release… While the share of the European Union in the export markets of dried figs, in which Türkiye is the world leader in production and exports, is decreasing, the share of the American continent and Far Eastern countries is increasing. While the share of the European Union in our …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: American consumers prefer Turkish apricots the most

Press release… The United States ranked at the top with a demand of 63.6 million dollars for Turkish dried apricots. The TURQUALITY Project named Turkish Tastes, carried out by the Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) in order to boost the demand for Turkish food products in the USA, ramped up the …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: We aim to export 107 thousand tonnes of dried apricots in the new season

Press release… New season target for dried apricots is 107 thousand tonnes of exports… Mehmet Ali Işık Türkiye is the world’s leading producer and exporter of dried apricots in the 2023/24 season, producing 66,832 tonnes for 399 million dollars. While dried apricot exports were 80 thousand 388 tonnes on quantity …

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“Generation Z has a huge potential in the consumption of nuts and dried fruits”

Press release… The International Nut and Dried Fruit Council (INC), the highest consultation platform of dried fruits and dried fruits worldwide, announced the nut, dried fruit and snack preferences of Generation Z in Latin America. Mehmet Ali Işık, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aegean Dried Fruits and Products …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: We set an export target of 1.8 billion dollars in dried fruits

Press release… 6-month dried fruit exports surged by 15 percent to 829 million dollars… Quantity of dried fruit exports decreased, foreign exchange earnings increased… In the first half of 2024, the amount of foreign currency earned from dried fruit exports rose by 15 percent… Average export price of dried fruit …

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Turkish food exporters set a target of 5 billion dollars to the USA!

Press release… Five billion dollar food export target to the USA… Turkish Food Sector Advances to Big Targets in the USA… Between 2019 and 2023, the total food imports of the USA soared by 35 percent from 156 billion dollars to 211 billion dollars, while Türkiye’s food exports to the …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: Aegean exporters’ share in the country’s dried fruit exports is 60 percent

Press release… Işık; “We are working to take a stronger place in the TIM top 1000 exporters list in 2024” Stating that Türkiye has been exporting dried figs, dried apricots and sultanas for hundreds of years, Aegean Exporters’ Associations Sustainability and Organic Products Coordinator and Aegean Dried Fruits and Products …

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“We aim to reach 300 million dollars in dried fig exports”

Press release… In the 2023/24 season, exports of seedless raisins, dried apricots and dried figs, in which Türkiye is the world leader in production and exports, soared by 8 percent from 933 million dollars to 1 billion 7 million dollars and the 1 billion dollar threshold was exceeded. Dried figs …

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