{"id":635953,"date":"2026-08-14T00:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/635953\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:47:35","slug":"cherry-exports-hit-235-mln-in-seven-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/635953\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry exports hit $235 mln in seven months"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"Cherry<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrkiye<\/a>\u2019s cherry<\/a> exports <\/a>reached $235 million in the first seven-plus months of 2026, marking a dramatic recovery from a severe frost that devastated last year\u2019s crop, an exporters\u2019 trade group has reported.<\/p>\n

Between Jan. 1 and Aug. 10, Turkish producers shipped 68,737 metric tons of cherries overseas, an 11-fold increase in volume compared to the 6,040 metric tons exported during the same period in 2025, according to data from the Aegean Exporters\u2019 Associations (E\u0130B).<\/p>\n

Revenue quadrupled from the $47.7 million generated during the cold-damaged 2025 season.<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrkiye is the world\u2019s largest producer of cherries and ranks among the top four global exporters. A severe freeze during the flowering period in 2025 severely curtailed yield, driving down foreign sales, but orchards rebounded strongly this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe experienced a notable performance in exports this year,\u201d said Cengiz Bal\u0131k, president of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters\u2019 Association. \u201cCompared to the same period last year, we saw roughly an 11-fold increase in export quantity and a fourfold increase in value.\u201d<\/p>\n

Exporters also expanded their global reach, shipping cherries to 52 destination countries this year, up from 34 in 2025.<\/p>\n

Germany was the top destination for Turkish cherries, purchasing $74 million worth of the fruit, followed by the Russian Federation at $67.5 million, Poland at $29 million and Iraq at $26.5 million.<\/p>\n

Bal\u0131k said that if favorable weather conditions persist, the industry aims to reach $250 million in cherry export revenue in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u0130ZM\u0130R T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s cherry exports reached $235 million in the first seven-plus months of 2026, marking a dramatic recovery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,241963,179,18,10170,19,17,11065],"class_list":["post-635953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cherry","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-exports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-trkiye"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117091110720406648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}