ISTANBUL \u2013 H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/p>\n
Turkey\u2019s citrus exports, currently robust, could expand significantly as Turkish citrus becomes known worldwide as a quality product, an industry group has said.<\/p>\n
Citrus Promotion Group, an organization for the promotion of Turkish citrus in the domestic and international markets, provided figures on Turkey\u2019s citrus exports while attending last week\u2019s tangerine festival in Seferihisar, \u0130zmir.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the festival, the group\u2019s co-chairman, Mustafa T\u00fcrkmeno\u011flu, said that Turkey\u2019s total annual citrus cultivation was 2.6 million. \u201cThe sector is the mainstay of a total of 5 million people living in the Mediterranean and Aegean regions, directly or indirectly,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
Pointing out that only one-third of Turkey\u2019s total citrus cultivation was exported, T\u00fcrkmeno\u011flu said that the promotion group aimed to increase citrus exports, which were around $802 million in 2009, to over $1 billion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe established the Citrus Promotion Group after citrus prices fell sharply due to an abundance of yield and some fruits were not even consumed in the domestic market and went to waste. We want to increase the local and foreign demand for citrus fruits. We also want to be able to highlight the concept of \u2018Made In Turkey\u2019 and to turn it into a brand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
T\u00fcrkmeno\u011flu said that after airing TV commercials aiming the Russian market, they attracted much interest; they recently decided to continue with their promotional studies in additional countries.<\/p>\n
He added that the group has already attended many important promotional events in Turkey and abroad thanks to contributions from fresh fruit and vegetable exporters\u2019 unions in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Sea regions and in provinces like Istanbul, Antalya and Bursa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISTANBUL \u2013 H\u00fcrriyet Daily News Turkey\u2019s citrus exports, currently robust, could expand significantly as Turkish citrus becomes known worldwide as a quality product, an industry group has said. Citrus Promotion Group, an organization for the promotion of Turkish citrus in the domestic and international markets, provided figures on Turkey\u2019s citrus exports while attending last week\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846],"tags":[4744,3349],"class_list":["post-28285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-citrus","tag-exports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}