2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
A big threat looms over the chocolate industry. There has been a decline in the production of hazelnuts in Turkey, which is not only a producer and exporter of hazelnuts in the world. The crisis with hazelnuts is a prerequisite for the sharp rise in prices, informs AFP.
It turns out that the torrential rains that fell this summer have destroyed not only the native crop, but also the hazelnuts in the four districts of the Black Sea region of Turkey (Giresun, Trabzon, Rize and Ordu).
It is there that most of the plants from which these nuts are extracted are sown. The atypical for the season colds and hail have ruined a large part of the local production, leaving almost the whole world without hazelnuts.
Usually in one year in our southern neighbor are produced about 590 thousand tons of hazelnuts, which is about 3/4 of world production. Unfortunately, this year the Turkish harvest amounts to only 370 thousand tons, which seriously worries producers.
Due to the shortage of production, prices have risen by up to 80 percent. Last year, the value of one kilogram of hazelnuts amounted to about 6 Turkish lira (just over 2 euros). Now the price has jumped to 11 pounds (about 4 euros), commented Nejat Yurur, owner of a hazelnut processing plant in Ordu.
There is likely to be a drop in sales, although we do not yet have exact figures, explains Ilyas Oedipus Sevinc, chairman of the Confederation of Black Sea Exporters.
The unpleasant situation affects not only hazelnut producers, but also the global chocolate industry, as in the production of chocolate products, it uses mainly Turkish nuts.
We offer exceptional quality hazelnuts grown in Giresun. That is why they are sought after both in Bulgaria and by foreign buyers, says Ruhi Yilmaz, who is in charge of agriculture at the Giresun Chamber of Commerce.
Turkish hazelnuts exported abroad are the most widely used in the chocolate industry, Sevinc added.
Most of the exports go to Germany and Italy, where Ferrero is headquartered. It owns the Nutella and Kinder brands, which will be hit hardest by Turkey's hazelnut shortage.
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