Her Excellency Turkish Apricots!

The following Turkish apricot crop information has been provided by Banu Er of Doraintrade which is working as an agent, broker and consultant at international markets targeting to establish a strong link between producers and buyers on trust basis.

Doraintrade has been tracing the market on behalf of producers and buyers in order to give feedback and market reports from the source regularly. The crop information follows:

Turkish Apricots 2017 crop harvest started in the production area of Malatya. This year, harvest was around 2 weeks later than usual due to cooler and rainy spring season and necessary hot and dry weather for harvest arrived to the production areas.

As every year, at the beginning of the harvest, we have visited wide production areas in Malatya, performed our own survey and met with the farmers to hear their expectations and learn their new crop production behaviors.

Beginning of the harvest by shaking the tress with machinery or by hand and collecting the fresh apricots from the plastic shields covered at the bottom of trees.

If the production will continue, dried natural or organic Apricots, fresh products are spread over the shield for drying process immediately.