Largest Producer of the Apricot

Posted by Malatya Apricot on January 29th, 2016

As we all know that apricot is a fruit crop which grows in an appropriate temperature under the special observations. Many countries like Japan, China, Siberia and many other countries growing this crop. There are large species of apricot is growing around the world under the various different conditions. The plants of the apricot always have a flower which frosts earlier and with the short storage life the fruits of this plant get soft.

If we talk regarding the major producer of the apricot than turkey is considered as one of the area producing apricot in large quantity as the there is humidity in the atmosphere of that area. Except the black sea region the apricot used to be grown at most of the places of the Turkey as there is high precipitation and coldness. Apricot uses to be cultivated in month of May and from the second week of this month the cultivation of this plant gets started.

Malatya, which is basically situated in the southwest eastern area of the Mediterranean, is considered as the biggest dried apricots producers as the temperature of that area is perfect for producing dries species of the apricot. The region of the Malatya has approximately 8 million apricot trees which is large in number in comparison of the apricot trees in this world. If we compare the produced apricot during the last 1 decade than there is huge hike in the production of apricot has been found. During the harvesting process of the apricot unique process is adopted soil gets covered with plastic covers so that the fruits drop on to it. Then after that the fruits gathered into the container to transform them in the drying form.

Malatya is not only the major producer of the dried apricot but also it deals in sulphured dried apricots under which the dried apricots are converted into the colored ones. The main objective of transforming the color of the apricot is to enhance the overall appearance of the apricot to attract the lovers of apricot and to give it a rich texture. Malatya is considered as one of the largest sulphured dried apricotsupplier around this world. During the dying process the apricot changes its color after the treatment of sulfur dioxide on it. After sulfuring the apricots it is placed under the sunlight and all of the pits of it are removed by squeezing it from the hand. Sulphured apricots are highly demandable around the world due to its rich texture and the benefits related with the consumption of this apricot.