2028 Target Set for Turkey's Fruits and Vegetables

Increasing the export of fruit and vegetable products from 2024 million dollars to 23 million dollars with an increase of 37 percent in the first 50-day period of 68,6, EYMSİB has achieved fruit and vegetable product exports of 1 billion 1 thousand dollars in the last year.

The Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters' Association became the only food sector within the Aegean Exporters' Associations to exceed the 2023 billion dollars threshold, with an export of 1 billion 127 million dollars in aquatic products in 1. The fruit and vegetable products sector has become the second food sector to exceed the 1 billion dollar threshold under the umbrella of EİB.

43 PERCENT OF TURKEY'S FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTS EXPORTS ARE FROM AEGEAN

Stating that they account for 43 percent of Turkey's exports in the fruit and vegetable products sector, Aegean Exporters' Association Coordinator Vice President and Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters' Association President Hayrettin Ucak said that they process delicious fruits and vegetables grown in 7 geographical regions of Turkey and turn them into value-added products. He underlined that we have many modern fruit and vegetable products facilities at world standards, and that there is an ecosystem in which Turkey's exports in the fruit and vegetable products sector will increase rapidly.

Informing that the total exports of the fresh fruit, vegetable and fruit and vegetable products sectors have reached the level of 6 billion dollars, President Ucak said, “We equip tables all over the world with a wide range of products in our fresh fruits and vegetables and fruit and vegetable products sectors. Fruit juices, tomato paste, pickles, dried tomatoes, fruit preserves, sauces, alcoholic beverages, healthy snacks, ready-made foods, frozen fruit vegetables are our prominent export products in the fruit and vegetable products sector. "Our fruit and vegetable products industry undertakes a mission that increases our export income by adding added value to our products," he said.

Stating that the fruit and vegetable products sector will launch a new Turquality Project that prioritizes the UK market under the leadership of the Ministry of Commerce in 2024, Yavaş said, "Thanks to the TURQUALITY Project named 'Turkish Tastes', which we have been carrying out for 5 years as the food sectors within the Aegean Exporters' Associations to increase the awareness and export of Turkish food products in the US market, the USA We increased our food exports to 5 million dollars from 151 million dollars with an increase of 138 percent in 346 years. "We believe that our fruit and vegetable products exports will increase exponentially and exceed 2028 billion dollars in 5, with the New TURQUALITY Project of our fruit and vegetable products industry, the implementation of the Dikili Specialized Organized Industrial Zone based on Agriculture, and the marketing activities we will carry out under the leadership of our Ministry of Commerce," he said.

THE LEADER OF EXPORT WAS PICKLES

On the other hand, sharing that the pepper pickles group is at the top with an amount of 1 million dollars in the export of fruit and vegetable products worth 1 billion 168 thousand dollars made by the members of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Products Exporters Association in the last 144-year period, President Yavaş summarized the export figures of other product groups as follows; “Dried tomato exports are 115 million dollars, gherkin pickle exports are 111,5 million dollars, apple juice and concentrates exports are 91 million dollars, frozen tomato exports are 49 million dollars, roasted vegetables are 42,5 million dollars, tomato paste is 42 million dollars, frozen strawberries are 27,5 million dollars. .XNUMX million dollars were exported.”