Press release… Due to climate change, the harvest of citrus crops in the Aegean Region decreased by 72 thousand tonnes in the 2021/22 season compared to the previous season and was estimated as 361 thousand 478 tons. While the citrus yield in the Aegean Region was foreseen as 434 thousand …

Home coffee consumption surged, thereby helping to offset the slump in sales following the closure of the HoReCa segment. Average coffee prices remained growing gradually through to Q1 2021. The report, World – Coffee (Green) – Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and Insights shows that favourable weather conditions in 2020 enabled coffee …

The wildfires ravaging Turkey’s southern and western coastal regions, which firefighters have been struggling to contain due to strong winds, have already caused great damage to agricultural fields and farms. Now the production of olives, honey and many fruits and vegetables is at risk. As of Tuesday, only 13 wildfires remain …

Press release… Cereals, vegetable oils and dairy drive FAO Food Price Index lower for second month in a row… 5 August 2021, Rome – Global food commodity prices fell in July for the second consecutive month, according to a benchmark United Nations report released today. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 123.0 points …

Press release… This year’s export journey of seedless table grape, which has a 73 percent share of Turkey’s table grape exports, begins on Friday, August 6, 2021. The export date of Mevlana (Razaki) table grapes is set for Thursday, August 12, 2021. While Turkey’s export of fresh grapes was 150 …

Press release… Mediterranean Exporters’ Associations (AKİB), in July, reached an export value of 1.17 billion dollars with an increase of 41.2 percent compared to the same period of the previous year and performed more than 4 times the country average. AKİB, which supported general exports by 7.8 percent in July, …

According to the new report published by the United Nations, there will be serious famine in 23 different points around the world in the next 4 months. The 2 sub-organizations of the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), in their advice published …

Press release… FAO continues to supply training to food entrepreneurs, suppliers and retailers in the fight against food waste as part of the ‘Save Your Food’ campaign… 3 August 2021, Ankara, Turkey – Each year over 1.3 billion tonnes of food produced worldwide is lost or wasted. Furthermore, the volume of wasted …

Press release… A working group was created for sustainable production and export. Ömer Celal Umur, Chairperson of Aegean Tobacco Exporters’ Association, stated that the tobacco product item with the highest increase in 2020 was hookah (narghile) tobacco, which achieved an increase of 46 percent compared to the previous year. Umur …

Press release… Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) realized an export of 1 billion 238 million dollars with an increase of 4 percent in July. EIB, which boosted its exports by 26 percent in the January-July period and brought 8 billion 884 million dollars to Turkey, reached 14 billion 820 million dollars …