Week 4 felt like the familiar pre-Lunar New Year setup: more fruit on the ground, but demand was still doing that slow shuffle in the corner, pretending it was “just browsing”.

The Singapore wholesale fruit market remains firmly in a defensive phase. WK03 offered little evidence of a demand-led recovery.

As climate change disrupts traditional seasonal rhythms, the Eğirdir Fruit Research Institute is responding not with new barriers or heaters, but with biology.