Press release… Söke cotton, which crossed the borders from the Aegean Region, the land of fertile lands, made history as the first cotton product to be registered in the European Union. Türkiye celebrates the success of Söke cotton on 7 October World Cotton Day. Jak Eskinazi World Cotton Day will …

Press release… United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) raised its global cereal production forecast for 2024 slightly to 2 billion 853 million tonnes, as upward revisions to rice and wheat production outweighed a slight decline in global coarse grain production. The new figure, which is also included in the …

Press release… The benchmark for world food commodity prices saw its fastest increase in 18 months in September, with quotations up for all covered commodity groups, led by sugar, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international …

Turgay Türkyılmaz, General Director of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, announced that they have determined landing points in every region of Türkiye, whoever wants will not be able to land wherever they want and their teams will work in those regions. Turgay Türkyılmaz Türkyılmaz stated …

Ahmet Abdullah Antalyalı, President of the Agriculture and Rural Development Support Institution (TKDK), stated that they support producers with the aim of local production and consumption by ensuring that added value remains locally. Indicating that the state attaches great importance to rural development grants, Antalyalı explained that they support 17 …

Press release… Samsun Ondokuz Mayıs University (OMU) Faculty of Agriculture Professor Dr. Yusuf Demir stated that there is a high possibility of not getting enough rainfall in the winter months. Dr. Yusuf Demir “We should take precautions against this situation. As the ‘El Nino’ weather event, which causes an increase …

The fifth International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) observed on the 29th of September 2024, with the theme ‘Climate Finance for Food Loss and Waste Reduction’. IDAFLW calls on public and private entities across the food system, as well as consumers, to unite in reducing food loss and …

Calling for collective action on International Food Loss and Waste Awareness Day, TÜGİS stated that food waste is an ‘unacceptable luxury’ in today’s world where hunger and malnutrition are serious problems. Kaan Sidar Kaan Sidar, President of the Turkish Food Employers’ Association (TÜGİS), who made statements on the occasion of …

Press release… In the January-September period of 2024; hazelnut exports from Türkiye reached 214 thousand 323 tonnes and 1 billion 740 million 734 thousand dollars of foreign currency inflow was provided in return. When these export realisations are compared with the same period of the previous year, it corresponds to …

China, the world’s largest importer of dairy products, is becoming increasingly self-sufficient. But how does this development affect other countries’ exports of key commodities? Dairy supply has become an important policy topic for the Chinese government since 2018. The country has set itself the goal of increasing milk production by …