According to TÜİK’s second estimate of crop production for last year, quince production, which was 203 thousand tons in 2024, decreased due to the effect of agricultural frost in 2025.
Production, which decreased by 59 percent last year, in other words by 119 thousand 500 thousand tons to 83 thousand tons, led to an increase in quince prices.
In a market in Bursa, quince was offered for sale at 298.80 lira per kilo. Quince, which was 258.99 lira per kilo in another market, found buyers for 150 to 200 lira in others.
The agricultural frost experienced this year in the production of quince, which is grown intensively in the Osmaneli district of Bilecik and is one of the most important items of the regional economy, reduced the yield and caused the prices to reach a record level.
Osmaneli quince, which is used as a raw material for value-added products such as Turkish delight, molasses and jam, as well as for daily consumption, upset its producers and buyers due to the climatic conditions experienced this season.
The product exported to countries such as Germany, England, the Netherlands and Belgium in the European market last year has decreased to almost non-existent levels this year.
Even in Osmaneli, which is the center of this fruit, quince is sold for 150 to 250 lira per kilo.
Quince, which can reach up to 250 liras per kilo even on its own, has become one of the luxury fruits in consumption.
