Press release… Er: “We have 500 thousand farmers engaged in olive cultivation” Pointing out that olive farming has been done in Anatolia, the homeland of the olive tree, for 6 thousand years, Davut Er, the chairman of the Aegean Olive and Olive Oil Exporters’ Association (EZZİB), said, “After 2002, Turkey’s …

Press release… Birol Celep: “Our farmer is the world leader in production, we are in exports” Reminding that Turkey is the world leader in the production of seedless raisins, dried figs and dried apricots, Chairman of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, Birol Celep pointed out that these …

Last month, Germany and Iraq took the lead in Turkey’s agricultural exports. According to the information compiled from the data of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM), Turkey’s exports increased by 109 percent last month compared to the same period of 2020 and reached 18 billion 766 million dollars. Agricultural exports …

Press release… Cahit Doğan Yağcı, Chairperson of the Aegean Furniture Paper and Forestry Products Exporters’ Association, said that people tend to consume healthy and herbal products with the pandemic. Stating that there is an increase in the demand for forestry products such as oregano (thyme), laurel, sage and lime, Yağcı …

Press release… Turkey-wide exports of tomatoes and their products reached 608 million dollars in 2020 and exports of tomatoes and products made from the Aegean reached 187 million dollars with an increase of 3 percent. The fruit and vegetable sector aims to increase the export of tomato product group to …

Strawberry export of approximately 171 thousand dollars in 2.5 months from the Western Mediterranean Region… According to the data of the Western Mediterranean Exporters’ Association, last year, 2 million 120 thousand 202 dollars of strawberries were exported from the region where Antalya, Isparta and Burdur are located. This year, there …

Tobacco exports decreased in the first quarter of 2021… Leaf tobacco and tobacco products exports decreased by 28 percent in the first quarter of 2021 compared to the same period of 2020. Exports of tobacco and tobacco products, which were 218 million dollars in the January – March period of …

Fehmi Kiraz, Chairperson of the Union of Turkish Agricultural Engineers, stated that they have made their wheat yield estimate as 17.5 million tonnes this year due to the drought. Indicating that Central and Southeastern Anatolia regions, where wheat production is high, were greatly affected by the drought, Kiraz also noted …

Malatya Commodity Exchange Chairman Ramazan Özcan said that April’s export figures made the region and the country’s economy happy. Stating that they have increased in value this year compared to April last year, Özcan said, “Last year, we exported 7 thousand tonnes of dried apricots in April and earned 18 …

Press release… Uludağ Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association (UYMSİB), with the support of the Ministry of Trade, realized the fourth of the trainings it gave within the scope of Bursa Black Fig Ur-Ge Project. UYMSİB has added a new one to its works to introduce Bursa Black Fig, which …