Turkish Dried Apricots: TMO Has Not Yet Announced Apricot Prices

The farmers of Malatya, whose biggest export is dried apricots in the foreign market, are troubled. TMO didn’t announce the apricot price and did not make any purchases yet and this caused reactions. In the country where the price of diesel has tripled compared to last year, as in many products, the producer asks if the TMO will make the purchase after the villagers run out of goods.

TMO follows the apricot prices and watches the markets. If there is a decrease in the price of apricot or a downward trend in prices, TMO will switch to intervention purchases.

Dried apricot exports reached 375 million dollars

Turkey exported a total of 80 thousand 763 tons of dried apricots in the period from August 1, 2021 to July 30, 2022, leaving the 2021/22 season behind with an increase of 29 percent and 375 million dollars.

Dried apricot exports to the European continent reached 154 million dollars with an increase of 21 percent. It exported 87 million dollars to the Americas with an increase of 26 percent, 19 million dollars to African countries with an increase of 58 percent, and 50 million dollars to Asian, Oceania and Far East countries with an increase of 56 percent.

In the 2021/22 season, on a country basis; the most apricots were sent to the USA with an increase of 26 percent with an export income of 57 million dollars. France demanded 35 million dollars with an increase of 40 percent, Germany demanded 29 million dollars with an increase of 4 percent, the United Kingdom demanded 21 million dollars with an increase of 25 percent, and Australia demanded Turkish dried apricots for 17 million dollars with an increase of 45 percent.

The value of the Dollar and Euro remained almost the same as last week against the Turkish Lira. The Usd/TL rate at 18, 29 TL (18,23 last week) and Euro/TL rate is at 18,30 TL levels (18,46 last week).