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Apricots: Run on diced apricots

August 25, 2017 at 1:16 PM , Der AUDITOR
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MALATYA. Supplies may be abundant, but high quality dried apricots are difficult to obtain. The farmers take part of the blame as they started harvesting to soon. Buyers appear to be particularly interested in diced apricots.

 

Quality issues

The prices for dried apricots remain stable for now. Traders, however expect the situation to change in September as it is reckoned that demand is set to rise which should especially cause the prices for Jumbos and no. 1-3 to increase further. The large crop mainly produced small fruits and the early harvest had an adverse impact on the taste since the sugar content was far too low.

Not much room for speculation

There should be abundant supplies of dried apricots no 4 and smaller. Prices should, however, not drop too much lower. Prices for sulphured apricots currently range from 1,700 USD/mt for no 8 to 3,700 USD/mt FOB for Jumbos – a discrepancy of 2,000 USD/mt.

Dried apricots, Turkey

size

USD/mt

EUR/mt

no 2

3,000

2,551

no  4

2,600

2,211

no 6

2,100

1,786

diced, 5x8 mm

1,500

1,276

FOB Mersin

 

Hungry for diced apricots

Turkey has exported 4,500 mt of dried apricots so far, this month, which is about 200 mt less than last year. Exports of whole apricots have dropped. The buyers are more interested in diced apricots since shipments increased by 200 mt as compared to last year.

Dried apricot exports in mt

type

2017/18

2016/17

whole

3,728

4,058

industrial

304

384

diced

472

280

total

4,505

4,722

since the beginning of the season

 

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