Tag Archives: Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters' Association

Press release… Interfresh Eurasia, a showcase for the fresh fruit and vegetable, dried fruit, and fruit and vegetable product sectors that generated 8 billion dollars in foreign currency for Türkiye in 2024, will be held at FUARIZMIR in Izmir from September 18-20, 2025. This year, the fair, heavily supported by …

Press release… Uçak: ‘The quality of the products is suitable for export, that’s our only consolation.’ Hayrettin Uçak, Chair of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, stated that the citrus crop in the Aegean Region is expected to decline by 34 percent in 2025 due to frost events …

Press release… The climate crisis has had a clear impact on citrus production in the Aegean Region. With temperatures reaching -17 degrees in April and 45-50 degrees in July, Türkiye is experiencing the climate crisis very harshly in the agricultural sector. In April 2025, which has been described as a …

Press release… The 2025 target for Sultani seedless fresh grape exports is 100 million dollars… Sultani seedless grapes account for 60 percent of fresh grape exports… Hayrettin Uçak, Chair of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, stated that Anatolia is the homeland of Sultani seedless grapes. He added …

Press release… Fresh fig exports soared by 18 percent in 2024… Hayrettin Uçak, Chair of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, announced that Türkiye earned 68 million 290 thousand dollars in foreign exchange from 19 thousand 217 tonnes of fresh fig exports in 2023. He noted that in …

Press release… Hayrettin Uçak, Chair of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, announced that the superior seedless variety stands out among table grape varieties grown in Türkiye for its early ripening characteristics. Uçak stated that exports of superior seedless grapes surged by 102 percent in 2024, from 4.4 …

Press release… Türkmen Türkmenoğlu, Member of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association, said that pickles, frozen fruit, tomato paste and ready-to-eat Mediterranean delicacies sourced from the Aegean Region reflect the country’s culinary identity. He shared that over 1 billion dollars of Türkiye’s 2.7 …

Press release… Hayrettin Uçak, Chair of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, stated that exports fell by 9 percent to 560 million dollars in the first half of 2025. Uçak explained that in the first half of 2025, tomato exports surpassed cherry exports with 39 million dollars, rising …

Press release… Hayrettin Uçak, Chair of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, who is also a producer, stated that climate change has made itself felt more clearly today and that it is imperative to switch to covered production and to spread agricultural insurance in order to prevent the …

Press release… Türkiye exported 248 million dollars worth of fresh fruit vegetables and fruit and vegetable products to the UK in 2024. Aiming to get a share of 500 million dollars from the UK’s 17.7 billion dollars imports of fresh fruit vegetables and fruit and vegetable products, Turkish fresh fruit …