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Turkey is the leading producer and exporter of hazelnuts worldwide, ****5% of world demand is provided from the Black Sea region. Hazelnut fields, widely spread in the Black Sea coast of Turkey, have been located within *0 km from the coast towards inland. In the western Black Sea, it starts from the city Zonguldak and extends to the east over the entire Black Sea like a green strip lying between the sea and the mountains almost to the Georgian border.

Turkey has a distinguished place among the other hazelnut producer countries in the world, thanks to its high quality, and maintains its leading position in production and exports.

Categories of Turkish Hazelnuts:

Quality falls into two groups: Giresun and Levant, names according to their production areas.

Giresun Quality:hazelnuts are round-shaped, grow in Giresun and in certain districts of Trabzon. Premium quality hazelnuts are the worlds highest-quality.

Levant Quality: Production areas such as Levant Akçakoca, Levant Ordu, Levant Trabzon, and Levant Samsun, do contain generally more fat and are better in taste than the hazelnuts grown worldwide. Less fat content compared to the Giresun Quality hazelnuts.

Hazelnut production is made by the standards TS***4 for inshell hazelnuts, TS***5 for natural hazelnut kernels and TS***7 for processed hazelnut kernels.

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