MAKE YOUR CHOICE; FRESH OR DRY!

Press release...

Grape producers have been urged to make early choices in the evaluation of their crops as fresh or dry.
 Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association and the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters Union made a call to producers to prefer early whether dry or fresh assessment of grapes during a meeting in Turkey's important center of table grape and raisin production Alaşehir.
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Evaluation Meeting with Grape Producers and Exporters was held at Alaşehir Şehit Fethi Sekin Youth Center moderated by Hayrettin Uçak, President of Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters' Association.

Ege Dry Fruit and Products Exporters' Association Board of Directors Member Şemsettin Özgür, Ege University Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture, Head of Department. Dr. Ahmet Altındişli, Bornova Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Engineer Ferhunde Özlem Altındişli, Manisa Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forest Manager Mustafa Gündoğar and Agricultural Engineer Hüseyin Gültekin participated as a speaker.

Export target of 1 billion dollars in grapes

Aegean Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Exporters Union Chairman Hayrettin Uçak, during on his opening speech, said, "It requires different production methods of evaluation as dry or fresh seedless sultana grapes. Meanwhile our manufacturers prefer to do in early season and we expect them to make production accordingly." "I would like to thank our producers for the foreign exchange of our country with the export of 650-700 million dollars annually with the products of viticulture produced such as grapes, grape leaves, grape juice and grape juice. Our goal is to increase the currency figure from these products to $ 1 billion" he added.

Ege Dry Fruit and Products Exporters' Association Board of Directors Member Şemsettin Özgür explained that EU countries are the main export markets for raisin exports but they had to make more than 3 thousand pesticide analysis last year.