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Fruit and vegetable production increases
Turkey
Wednesday 18 January 2012
MD
Fruit and vegetable production increased in 2011: 5.8% for vegetables and 3.6% for fruit.
TurkStat, the Institute of Turkish statistics has published its figures for the production of fruits and vegetables for the year 2011.
Turkish production of vegetables increased by 5.8% over the previous year and reached 27.5 million tons. Tomato production increased by 9.6%, onions 9.9% , carrots 14%, beans 4.6%, melons 2%, and watermelons 3.9% .
Turkish production of fruits increased by 3.6% to 17.2 million tons. Apples were up 2.9%, apricots 44.4%, plums 11.9%, cherries 4.9%, oranges 1.2% and mandarins 1.8%.
The institute expects the production of walnuts and hazelnuts to fall 26.7% and pistachios 12.5%, while prodcuction of almonds will increase by 26.9%.
source : turkstat gov tr
