Malatya is still recovering one year after the February 6 earthquake. For the past year, farmers have tried to utilize their remaining products from dried apricot warehouses damaged in the earthquake. The new harvest was much less than expected due to the impact of the disaster. All these reasons affected both dried apricot exports and the local market. Prices rose considerably in these months when the harvest was small in number. It is especially difficult to find dried apricots of quality suitable for export and the prices are high.
The approach of elections in Türkiye causes farmers to stock up. Those who expect prices to rise after the elections do not sell their products. When this is the case, exporters can only deliver goods to their contracted customers. Farmers claim that apricots come to the free zone from other countries and are exported from there, but the fact that the quantity of other origin products has decreased in these months and the prices are approaching Türkiye refutes these claims.
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