TOMATO'S JOURNEY TO RUSSIA The tomato was not a known plant until the discovery of the Americas. In fact, there are those who call the tomato a fruit rather than a plant. Medium-sized tomatoes, which are rich in fiber, have an average of 1 gram of fiber. A plant rich in vitamins A and C, potassium and folic acid. When we eat 1 medium-sized tomato a day, we meet our vitamin C needs and our vitamin A needs. Tomatoes are also a storehouse of lycopene. Do I need to remind you that lycopene, which gives the vegetable its red color, is a powerful antioxidant? In other words, when we eat tomatoes or its products, we are also strongly fighting cancer cells in our body.

Turkey ranks third in world tomato production after China and the USA. Tomatoes are grown in our country in four seasons. While production is carried out in greenhouses in summer and winter, tomatoes are grown in almost every province of Turkey during the summer period. Tomato production exceeded 14 million tons in 2021. 9.5 million tons of this consists of table tomatoes and 4.5 million tons of tomato paste. In 2021, Turkey earned $729 million in foreign exchange revenue from the exports of tomatoes and products made from tomatoes, with an increase of 20 percent compared to the previous year. Fresh tomato exports accounted for 49.7 percent of fresh fruit and vegetable exports. While 313 million dollars of foreign exchange was obtained from fresh tomatoes in 2020, this figure reached 363 million dollars in 2021 with an increase of .

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