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Turkey’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports exceeded the 3 billion dollar threshold over the last 12 months…
Hayrettin Uçak, the chairperson of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association (EYMSİB), in a written statement, said the exports were worth 1.3 billion dollars in the January-July period of 2020, but in the same period of this year, with the increasing demand, exports surged by 20 percent and reached 1.6 billion dollars.
Uçak said, “The traditional market of the sector, Russia, again took the lion’s share in exports. Exports worth 527 million dollars were sent to the country. Germany followed with 186 million dollars and Romania with 141 million dollars in fresh fruits and vegetable imports from Turkey.”
On a product basis, tomatoes ranked first with 220 million dollars worth sold abroad, while 183 million dollars of cherries and 148 million dollars of lemons were exported in the said period. Turkey exports fresh fruits and vegetables to a total of 150 countries.
Indicating that the harvesting of Turkey’s leading fresh fruit and vegetable exports was accelerated with the coming of the summer months, Uçak noted, “Cherry harvesting continues at high altitudes, we send fresh cherries to more than 50 countries, to Europe in particular.”
Pointing out that the export of fresh figs and fresh grapes continues without slowing thanks to the high demand, Uçak also said that the peach harvest in the Aegean region, meanwhile, is coming to an end.
Reminding that citrus fruits, one of Turkey’s leading export products, will begin to be harvested in the autumn, the sector representative explained, “Even though our climate-related citrus yield is low, we aim to increase the export value per kilogram by keeping the price up while we will make efforts to protect our producers.”
“The sector’s exports which were 2.5 billion dollars from July 31, 2019, to Aug. 1, 2020, increased to 3 billion dollars in the same period this year. This is a record on an annual basis. We anticipate that the increase in exports will continue with our harvested and future crops. We aim to set a new record at the end of this year,” Uçak added…
