Country reaps $924 million from hazelnut exports in first 5 months of export season, says regional trade association. Turkey’s hazelnut exports reached 132,772 tons in the first five months of the export season, a regional trade association announced on Tuesday. The September-January figure was down 32% from the same period …

Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation al-Sayed al-Quseir announced Saturday that a plan has been developed to reduce Egypt’s consumption of chemical pesticides and replace them with biopesticides. Quseir said that this reduction will reach 50 percent by 2030, adding that the plan aims to preserve public health and the …

Every year, on the 2nd of February, we celebrate World Wetlands Day (WWD) to raise global awareness about the high importance of wetlands for people and our planet. WWD is also an occasion to commemorate the signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971. “Wetlands …

New survey data released this month reveals that trust in co‑operative businesses is high. Nearly two thirds of consumers (59%) say they trust co‑ops, compared to just 35% for PLCs.[1] This could translate into sales at a time when major high street giants are folding, as nearly half of UK shoppers (49%) say …

Press release… Furniture, paper and forestry products exports exceed 5.5 billion dollars in 2020 Dried Organic Oregano As Furniture, Paper and Forestry Products Exporters’ Association, we host three important sub-sectors such as furniture, paper and non-wood forest products. In the exports of our three sectors, we reached the export figure …

Press release… Aegean Region, where exports firstly began in Turkey, according to data from customs offices, made an export of 25 billion 259 million dollars in 2020, while its imports remained at 18 billion 210 million dollars. According to a written statement made by the Aegean Exporters’ Associations, (EİB) the …

Press release… Aegean fishermen exported three out of every four Turkish fish… Aegean fishermen set an export target of 1 billion dollars for 2023… Aegean exporters of aquatic products has made 741 million dollars of exports and marked their brand in Turkey’s fisheries exports amounted to 1 billion 53 million …

While organic agriculture has become very popular in recent years, it has been ascertained that organic agriculture has increased by 46 percent since 2012 among European countries. According to the information obtained by the media monitoring agency, Ajans Press, from Eurostat data, organic agriculture statistics in EU countries have been …

Poverty across the globe will be exacerbated by climate change, a Turkish academic said Friday. Nesrin Algan, a professor at the faculty of political sciences at Ankara University, in her online presentation on climate justice, said that problems caused by climate change affect the whole world both socially and economically. …

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday reiterated his frustration with what he said were major differences in food prices and warned that tradesmen could face heavy fines if they keep charging unjustifiably high prices. “We see that there are very serious price differences in vegetables, fruits and legumes,” Erdoğan told …