Turkey’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports have been declining in recent years and claims about the reselling of hazardous returned exports in the domestic market must be investigated, Turkish Association of Agriculturalists (TZD) head İbrahim Yetkin has said.
Fresh fruits and vegetables worth $1.5 billion were exported in the first nine months of 2014, but this figure decreased to around $1.3 billion in the same period of this year, Yetkin said in a written statement.
“Turkey’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports have recently been declining. While our exports to Russia have been increasing in terms of volume, exports to other markets have been decreasing. Due to the general declining trend in exports, we have seen a drop in the value basis too,” he stated.