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The Republic of Turkey has a young population of 82 million people fueling consumption.

In Marketing Year (MY) 2019/20, Turkish lemon production, especially the interdonat variety, is expected to be negatively affected by unstable weather conditions last spring and fall.

The Turkish cotton crop for MY 2019/20 is now estimated at 590,000 hectares and 800,000 MT (3.6 million bales).

For CY 2019/2020, fresh deciduous fruit production is forecast at 550,000 MT for fresh apples and 590,000 MT for fresh pears, unchanged from revised CY 2018/19 levels.

Marketing Year 2019/20 is forecast to be a better year for fresh deciduous fruits in general with pear and table grape production increasing, while apple production remains stable.

2020 chicken meat production will rise slightly to 2.2 million metric tons with exports of 158,000 metric tons, up 2 percent to key markets of China, Chile and Russia.

2019 Argentine dairy production is projected at 10,650,000 tons, down 1.8 percent from 2018 due to abnormally warm weather during the first half of the year.

Turkey’s sugar beet production is forecast at 20.5 MMT in MY 2019/20 and is expected to result in 2.7 MMT sugar.

Turkey has removed most of the technical barriers on importation of genetic materials for animal breeding.

2019/20 soybean planted area is forecast at 18 million hectares, up 0.2 million hectares as producers shift second season plantings from corn to soybeans.

It is "off-year" for pistachios in Turkey therefore low amount of pistachio production is expected.

Tourism continued to recover in 2018 from the low hit in 2016 when domestic and geopolitical security issues nearly halted tourism.