7.8 Million Dollars of Tropical Fruit Exports in the First 6 Months

Turkey exported tropical fruits worth 7 million 857 thousand dollars in the first 6 months of this year.

In the first 6 months of 2022, Turkey's tropical fruit exports exceeded 7.8 million dollars. Hayrettin Uçak, President of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters' Association, pointed out that Turkey is growing its value-added chain every year and underlined that the graph of tropical fruit exports has increased especially in recent years. Uçak said, "While our tropical fruit exports across Turkey were 4 million dollars in 2018, 5 million dollars in 2019, 6 million dollars in 2020, we increased our exports by 85 percent to 13 million dollars in 2021. We expanded our product range in tropical fruit by adding products such as dragon fruit, passion fruit, carambola, papaya, mango, pineapple, coconut, blueberry to this path we started with kiwi and avocado. Our kiwi exports, where Russia ranked first, amounted to 5 million 454 thousand dollars. Our exports of mango, which we recorded the most acceleration, increased from 144 thousand dollars to 1 million 126 thousand dollars. The United Kingdom ranks first in our mango exports with 948 thousand dollars. Our blueberry exports, led by Germany, increased from 524 thousand dollars to 761 thousand dollars. While exporting tropical fruits to about 60 countries in 2020, we increased this to 83 countries and regions in 2021. We anticipate that we can increase our tropical fruit exports to 20 million dollars by the end of 2022.