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“The strategy of distant countries worked one-to-one in dried figs”

Press release…

The distant markets strategy put forward by the Ministry of Trade in recent years to diversify Türkiye’s export markets has been successfully implemented in dried fig exports.

Mehmet Ali Işık, President of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that the share of the American continent in dried fig exports has increased from 17 percent to 28 percent in the last 10 years and that the share of Far Eastern countries in our dried fig exports has increased from 12 percent to 15 percent in the same period, and that TURQUALITY and URGE projects, fairs and sectoral trade delegation organisations have a great share in this success.

Emphasizing that the leading country in dried fig exports in the 2023/24 season was the United States of America with exports of 59 million 377 thousand dollars, Işık said, “Our exports to the USA in the 2022/23 season were 43 million dollars. We achieved an increase rate of 38 percent in exports to the USA. France ranked second with 33 million dollars and Germany ranked third with 32 million dollars.”

“We exported dried figs worth 14.6 million dollars to Canada, 13.6 million dollars to Italy and 13.2 million dollars to Japan. The number of countries we exported dried figs to in the 2023/24 season was 107,” Işık added…

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