{"id":22318,"date":"2025-04-24T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=22318"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:00:38","slug":"the-turkiye-apricot-sector-pines-after-past-export-glory-after-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/the-turkiye-apricot-sector-pines-after-past-export-glory-after-snowfall\/","title":{"rendered":"The T\u00fcrkiye apricot sector pines after past export glory following snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A spring snow hail on April 10-12, 2025 that blighted apricot fields in T\u00fcrkiye is bringing back recent export memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eastern Mediterranean nation cumulatively exported $330 million worth of apricots in the half decade ending 2024, reports<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/business\/economy\/apricot-key-fruit-hit-hard-by-frost-earned-turkiye-330m-in-5-years\"><u>&nbsp;Daily Sabah<\/u><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is restoring orchards for the 2026 crop. However,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/insights\/prices\/turkey\/apricots\/\"><u>valuable\u00a0apricot export<\/u><\/a>\u00a0records inevitably inform the rehabilitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2021 to 2024, the country notably averaged between $55.6 and $82.6 million in annual apricot export returns.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last harvest in 2024 brought exports to $70.6 million, up by 20.4% from the 2023 equivalent after an acreage expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to estimates, the 2025 crop could still have decreased by 10% year-on-year even without snowfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the snow weighing in however, this year\u2019s crop will be just a sliver of the annual average of 750,000 tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Yunus Kili\u00e7 of the Union of Turkish Chambers of Agriculture, the nation might only manage 10,000 tonnes in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Apricot Hub of Malatya<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The production hub of Malatya in Eastern Anatolia region has particularly suffered the most damage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This province represents&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ae\/news\/other\/frost-and-snow-deal-blow-to-turkey-s-biggest-export-crops\/ar-AA1CT6zG?ocid=BingNewsSerp\"><u>85%<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;of the national output and helps T\u00fcrkiye supply 4\/5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;of the worldwide dried apricots cache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The export lead could change temporarily in 2025 after the wintry hit on the apricot groves. Although winter here lasts from late November through mid-March, it sometimes revisits the region due to climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, around\u00a01\/3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0of the country\u2019s 81 provinces\u00a0experienced frost and snow at the late timing of April.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/foods-that-start-with-a\/\"><u>Apricots<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;are warm and cool climate fruits that prefer a day temperature range of between 24 and 29\u00baC (75 and 85\u00baF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, will 2026 bring back the multi-million earnings that the T\u00fcrkiye apricot industry has been registering consistently of recent? Only restoration efforts in the aftermath of the snowfall will tell. Meanwhile, below is a look at the bigger picture of the national industry via statistics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-t-rkiye-apricot-statistics\"><strong>T\u00fcrkiye Apricot Statistics&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye is the world\u2019s biggest producer of apricots at between<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/business\/economy\/apricot-key-fruit-hit-hard-by-frost-earned-turkiye-330m-in-5-years\"><u>\u00a0750,000 tonnes<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(2023) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/country-rankings\/apricot-production-by-country\"><u>803,000 tonnes<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(2022) per year. It is also the number one source of dried apricot exports, accounting for over 3\/4 of the global trade for the commodity. The fruit mainly grows in the Eastern Anatolia province of Malatya, which produces 85% of the national output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), national production has been depreciating unevenly between 2019 and 2023, from\u00a0<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>846,606 \u00a0to 750,000 tonnes<\/u><\/a>. In contrast, the apricot acreage in the country has been increasing annually over the same timeline. It hiked \u00a0from 131,178 hectares (ha) in 2019 to 144,941 ha in 2023. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apricot production and acreage between 2019 and 2023, courtesy<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>&nbsp;FAOSTAT<\/u><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Market Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Production [t]<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Acreage [Ha]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>750,000<\/td><td>144,941<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>803,000<\/td><td>141,851<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>800,000<\/td><td>134,879<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>833,398<\/td><td>132,748<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>846,606<\/td><td>131,178<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which are the major export markets of T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>dried&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>apricots<\/strong>?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Providing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oec.world\/en\/profile\/bilateral-product\/dried-apricots\/reporter\/tur\"><u>72.9%<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;of the global supply of dried apricots, as of 2023, T\u00fcrkiye ranks first in exports of the fruit. In 2023, the biggest destination was the United States at $73.9 million out of a total export value of $426 million. Following suit were Germany at $42.4 million, France at $42.2 million and the UK at $32.2 million. In the past five years, ending 2024, T\u00fcrkiye earned a cumulative&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/business\/economy\/apricot-key-fruit-hit-hard-by-frost-earned-turkiye-330m-in-5-years\"><u>$330 million<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;from apricot exports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spring snow hail on April 10-12, 2025 that blighted apricot fields in T\u00fcrkiye is bringing back recent export memories. The eastern Mediterranean nation cumulatively exported $330 million worth of apricots in the half decade ending 2024, reports&nbsp;Daily Sabah.&nbsp; Currently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is restoring orchards for the 2026 crop. However,\u00a0valuable\u00a0apricot export\u00a0records&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v16.3 (Yoast SEO v20.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The T\u00fcrkiye apricot sector pines after past export glory following snowfall - Selina Wamucii | Food &amp; Agriculture News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/the-turkiye-apricot-sector-pines-after-past-export-glory-after-snowfall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The T\u00fcrkiye apricot sector pines after past export glory following snowfall - Selina Wamucii | Food &amp; Agriculture News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A spring snow hail on April 10-12, 2025 that blighted apricot fields in T\u00fcrkiye is bringing back recent export memories. 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