TURKISH RAISIN EXPORTS REACHED 365 MILLION DOLLARS!

Press release...

Technical Committees have been established to increase the export of dried fruit

Turkey is experiencing a successful season in seedless grapes from traditional export products. The average export price of raisins exceeding $ 2 thousand reached $ 365 million with an increase of 20 percent.

Ege Dry Fruits and Products Exporters' Association Board of Directors Chairman Birol Celep, spoke at the Association's regular financial general assembly in 2018 and said the exports of dried figs decreased by 20 percent to $ 180 million and the exports of dried apricots with a 4 percent decline to $ 193 million were recorded.

61 percent of dried fruit exports from the Aegean Region...

Celep also outlined the dried fruit exports in general, "Dried fruits exports amount based on a 4 percent increase to 510 588 tonnes, worth 8.5 percent increase amounted to 1 billion 388 million $. As Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters Union in 2018, we have carried out more than 61 percent of the total dry fruit exports in whole Turkey."