In the 2020/2021 Hazelnut Export season, which took place between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 35 percent of the 292 thousand 83 tonnes of hazelnut exports equivalent to 2 billion 5 million 316 thousand dollars was made from Trabzon province. Mehmet Cirav As in the previous seasons on a …
Read More »BİROL CELEP: FIRST SHIPMENT DATE OF DRIED FIGS DETERMINED AS OCTOBER 6
Press release… Dried fig exporting companies that are members of Exporters’ Associations, representatives of the Ministry of Commerce and Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TİM) came together online at the Dried Fig Advisory General Assembly Meeting. Birol Celep Birol Celep, Chairperson of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, said: “Based …
Read More »FAHRETTİN POYRAZ: WE WANT TO BE A PRODUCER IN MEAT AND DAIRY SECTOR
Agricultural Credit Cooperatives of Turkey (TKKMB) is preparing to meet the meat and milk sales that it previously obtained through supplier companies, with its own production. General Manager Fahrettin Poyraz said, “At this point, we have an effort to reach healthy food for our citizens. Because there are serious complaints …
Read More »“ONE OUT OF THREE PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY IN AFGHANISTAN!”
The World Food Program’s (WFP) food stocks in Afghanistan could run out by the end of September without additional funding, a top U.N. official warned Wednesday, saying that one out three people are hungry in the country. “We will not be able to provide those essential food items because we’ll …
Read More »TUNCAY SAGUN: FISHERY EXPORTS INCREASED BY 39.5 PERCENT IN THE FIRST 7 MONTHS
Ahmet Tuncay Sagun, Chairman of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) Sectors Council and Deputy Chairman of the Istanbul Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Association (İSHİB), stated that in the first 7 months of the year, fishery exports increased by 39.5 percent compared to the same period of 2020 and reached …
Read More »GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATED ERBAA NARİNCE LEAVES ARE EXPORTED TO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES…
The ‘Erbaa Narince Vineyard Leaf’ produced in the Erbaa district of Tokat province contributes 90 million TL per year to the economy of the district. Geographically indicated leaves are also exported to European countries. The geographically registered Erbaa Narince Vineyard Leaves, which are produced on an area of 19,820 decares …
Read More »FAO: GLOBAL FOOD COMMODITY PRICES REBOUND IN AUGUST
Sugar, wheat and palm oil push up FAO Food Price Index… 02 September 2021, Rome – Global food commodity prices rebounded rapidly in August after two consecutive months of decline, led by strong gains in the international price quotations for sugar, wheat and vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization of …
Read More »HAYRETTİN UÇAK: WE CONTINUE TO FIGHT AGAINST MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY EFFECTIVELY
Press release… Call for regional fight against Mediterranean Fruit Fly to prevent yield loss… The Mediterranean Fruit Fly, which started to appear about two months before the early satsuma harvest, a very short time before the citrus season, causes irreversible damage to the fruits in tens of decares of citrus …
Read More »TURKEY’S FIRST CORN MAZE IN ŞİLE!
Turkey’s first corn maze, established in the Şile district of Istanbul within the scope of a tourism innovation project supported by the Agriculture Ministry and the Union of Agricultural Chambers and the Association of Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB), has been opened to public visit. Aiming to increase the love of land and agriculture in the …
Read More »NEW FISHING SEASON STARTS WHILE FISHERMEN MOSTLY CATCH MACKERELS AND MULLETS…
The first fish caught in the Marmara Sea with the start of the new fishing season on Sept. 1 are horse mackerels and striped red mullets. “We have mostly horse mackerel. We also have anchovy and mullus. There is no blue fish. We also do not expect bonito this year,” Hakan Görmüş, a fisherman, told journalists in …
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