Year-round production with fruit and vegetable drying facility

The Fruit and Vegetable Drying Facility established within the Fethiye Karaçulha Wholesale Market by the Muğla Metropolitan Municipality continues to allow producers to utilize and obtain high-added-value products from their surplus produce. Muğla, being an important agricultural city with fertile lands and dominant crops, has seen the Muğla Metropolitan Municipality's Fruit and Vegetable Drying Facility process a total of 127,500 kg of fresh produce to date. The facility transforms fresh produce into powdered, dried, semi-dried products, and also into traditional fruit leather known as "pestil." Operational since 2018, the facility has processed 127.5 tons from 28 different types of products.

In 2023, the Fruit and Vegetable Drying Facility, processing 21.5 tons of produce from the entire province, enabled producers to obtain high-added-value products. The Fruit and Vegetable Drying Facility processed various products including banana, kiwi, quince, lamb's lettuce, salep (orchid root), orange, eggplant, plum, pear, mulberry, quince, pepper, tarhana (traditional Turkish soup), and peach, transforming them into powdered and fruit leather forms.