Dried figs: price chaos dominates the market

March 16, 2021 at 3:43 PM , Der AUDITOR
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AYDIN. Current export prices on the Turkish dried fig market vary by several hundred dollars per tonne, depending on the supplier. There are several reasons for this.

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Anyone currently looking for reliable price indications on the Turkish fig market will quickly realise that the effort is in vain. As in the past weeks, the exporters offer their goods only on request and the offers can vary widely, depending on the supplier. This price chaos is due to various circumstances. On the one hand, the farmgate supplies have been almost completely sold out, so that only few goods of export quality are available, and on the other hand, high freight costs and the instability of the Turkish lira are causing t

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