Özet:

Fruit is the first of preferred foods because of its high in terms of nutritional value and of low glycemic index. The fruit growing sector in Turkey is one of the leading countries in the world in terms of production and export thanks to the climatic conditions. Fruit varieties are divided into five as soft pome, hard stone, hard skin, berry fruits, citrus and other fruit types. In this study, the production, export and international competitiveness in Turkey of cherry, sour cherry, apricot, plum and peach-nectarine fruits, which are in the stone fruit category in the literature, were tried to be revealed. During the research period, the production increase in all stone fruits except peach-nectarine was above the world average. In exports, the rate of increase was above the world average for all stone fruits on quantity basis, while only cherries were below the world average on value basis. In the international competitiveness power analysis of these fruits, Revealed Comparative Advantages (RCA), Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantages (RSCA) and Relative Export Advantage (RXA) indexes were used. As a result of the analysis, at the beginning of the period while cherry with of the highest competitiveness index value, apricot has the highest competitiveness index value at the end of the period whether, and stone fruits other than sour cherry have high competitiveness. The results obtained, revealed that the increase in the production and export of stone fruits will continue and the rate of increase in export will be watching over the world average, and the competitiveness power will increase.

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