What you do not know about hazelnuts in Turkey

Turkey's vast area and climate made it home to many crops, making it an exporter country for many agricultural products, fruits, roses, etc., and today's talk is about one of the fruits whose production Turkey occupied an advanced seat and achieved great financial resources from.

Today's talk about hazelnuts in Turkey, Turkey's export of it, and some of the atmosphere and information about Turkish hazelnuts you may read for the first time in this article.

Turkey's hazelnut exports $1.1 billion in just 7 months

According to official statistics, Turkey achieved foreign sales of hazelnuts during the period between March and September of last 2018 at a value of 1.1 billion US dollars, as it exported about 190,000 tons of Turkish hazelnuts to many countries of the world.

The European countries represent the first and most importing market for hazelnuts from Turkey, as the percentage of hazelnuts in Turkey that were exported to Europe reached more than 75% of Turkey's total hazelnut exports, which can be estimated at about 144 thousand tons of hazelnuts during the mentioned period, which represents months Hazelnut harvest season in Turkey.

On the other hand, Turkey is the largest hazelnut exporter in the world. From September 2017 to the end of August 2018, Turkey sold 1.78 billion US dollars worth of hazelnuts, or about 287,000 tons of hazelnuts in Turkey, which is the highest Export percentage around the world.

The Turkish hazelnut contributes to raising the value and quantity of Turkish exports, which serves the plans for developing the Turkish economy. Turkey has been preoccupied for a long time with caring for hazelnuts and seeking to increase its exports it. Indeed, Turkey's hazelnut exports have increased significantly. Indeed, and it is expected that the upcoming hazelnut seasons in Turkey will witness a rise that may reach two billion US dollars, This is related to several factors:

First: The Turkish government’s interest in benefiting as much as possible from being one of the most famous countries that grow, produce, and export hazelnuts, as economic studies indicate that three-quarters of the hazelnuts exported around the world are from Turkey.

The second: the fact that hazelnuts in Turkey are a source of income for many families, whether farmers or workers in a pound, or those who benefit from it through selling and exporting them, and therefore everyone seeks to increase the productivity of hazelnuts.

The third: the many benefits of hazelnuts push the world to increase its import, so the more Turkey increases its production, the tacitly increases the share allocated for export, and as long as the export market is open to absorb large quantities, Turkey will inevitably benefit as it is the largest exporter of hazelnuts around the world.

Ordu state, hazelnut state, Turkey

The Turkish state of Ordu overlooks the Black Sea, which is the eastern gateway to the Black Sea in the northeastern side of Turkey. Ordu is also one of the charming and charming Turkish cities by its nature, its climate, its atmosphere, the character of its people, their customs and traditions, and it is an important tourist city. 

Hazelnut in Ordu is the main source of income for the people of the state and is the main source of income for the rural families there. Nut trees are widely spread in the state of Ordu and many people like to call the state as “the state of the hazelnut”, as well as the people of Ordu call the hazelnut green gold or Ordu oil.

The state of Ordu is the most productive city for hazelnuts, not only in Turkey but also in the world, where the annual production in Ordu of hazelnuts is about 600 thousand tons, and it is striking that many chocolate factories around the world depend on hazelnuts in Turkey and from Ordu in general. Especially for the production of chocolate, and many international companies import hazelnuts from Ordu for this purpose. Indeed, the company "Sagra", the owner of the international brand in the production of chocolate, has built its largest factory near Ordu in order to take advantage of the proximity of hazelnuts and buy them from its sources.

On the other hand, the Turkish hazelnut in the state of Ordu is one of the most famous gifts that the Turkish people in this state give to their guests and foreign tourists. The Turks in Ordu are proud of the fact that they are distinguished for producing hazelnuts and exporting them to other countries, and consider them part of their lives, customs, and traditions.

A special atmosphere around the hazelnut harvest season in Turkey

Hazelnut harvesting in Turkey, especially in the state of Ordu, has a special atmosphere during its harvest season, as a timetable is set by the Ministry of Trade in Turkey for the start of the harvest season. Usually, hazelnut harvesting begins first from the coastal areas of Ordu, east of the Black Sea.

In the coastal and nearby regions on the Black Sea coast in Ordu, hazelnut harvesting often begins in late July of each year, while in the central regions, a pound begins less than 10 days after the start of the harvest season in the coast, that is, approximately in the first week of the month. August, while the hazelnut harvest season begins in the mountainous and highland areas in the middle of August.

Many Turkish families and even foreign workers work in the hazelnut harvest, and the hazelnut harvesting seasons are often seasons of joy and happiness, and the people of Ordu have well-known folk songs that they sing during the harvest to pass the time and amuse themselves, and to stimulate work and activity.

Turkish hazelnut benefits

When talking about hazelnuts in Turkey, we are not talking about an ordinary fruit with simple benefits, and it is not just nuts and a luxury meal as it is believed. Rather, the Turkish hazelnut has many benefits, and perhaps we will try in this paragraph to pass on the most important of them:

• Hazelnut is one of the most well-known nuts, and it is used in the manufacture of chocolate, and it has a high nutritional value. It is considered a healthy food for children because they need it because of its richness in the aforementioned substances.

• Hazelnuts are an important source of many unsaturated fats, omega 1 and 2, proteins and minerals such as iron, phosphorus, and magnesium, as well as vitamins.

• Hazelnuts are also rich in vitamin E, which is known to contribute to protecting human skin from ultraviolet rays, which are classified as harmful rays that cause skin cancer and premature aging.

• Hazelnuts are mainly included in the diet and slimming recipes because of the beneficial substances that contribute to compensating for what the body loses during the application of diet programs.

• Hazelnut increases fertility in both sexes, and hazelnut oil contributes to providing the body with energy, which leads to an increase in sexual ability and has a significant impact on the quality of sperm as well.

• Hazelnut maintains the health of the heart and circulatory system, and enhances the performance of the brain for many functions, and has a role in preventing early Alzheimer's, and many signs of aging such as tremor

• Hazelnuts prevent blood clotting and reduce high blood pressure, which means that it is an important factor in reducing the risk of stroke.

• Hazelnuts are a digestive aid

• Hazelnut contributes to diuresis and purifies the blood from toxins and waste

• Hazelnut helps in the milk of the nursing mother.

It also has other benefits that it is not enough to mention and talk about in detail, but what is worth noting or warning against, so to speak, is to be careful not to eat it by those who suffer from hypersensitivity to hazelnuts, as this causes nausea, vomiting, and other side effects. 

In this article, we tried to inform the reader about the most important points that he may not be aware of about hazelnuts in Turkey and the state that is the most cultivated and exported, along with attaching this to official statistics and figures, the atmosphere of its harvest, and its benefits, and all of that we have prepared so that Fanar Realty remains your gateway to Turkey and your first source information for this country.