Turkey increases potato export to Azerbaijan

There is a plan to raise export of potato to Azerbaijan this year, said head of the Union of Entrepreneurs of Turkish Nevshehir Recep Tunj.
1news.az reports with reference to Turkish Haberciniz that he said Turkish production is of high demand among Azerbaijani importers.

Tunj said over 50,000 tons of potato were exported in Azerbaijan in the past week.

“We have received the order of our Azerbaijani and Georgian partners for supply of 200,000 tons of production”, Tunj said.

The CIS countries are the biggest customer of Turkish potato (64% of the overall export volume). Other countries account for no more than 30-40% of the overall export of Turkish potato.