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 …

Press release… 500 thousand families in 41 provinces of Turkey deal with olive producing. While an average of 450 thousand tonnes of table olives are produced annually, 200 thousand tonnes of olive oil is produced. 500 thousand families earn their living from olives. There is a significant employment in factories …

The Zero Waste project, launched in 2017 under the auspices of First Lady Emine Erdogan, brought 17 billion Turkish liras ($3.08 billion) to the Turkish economy from June 2017 to the end of 2020. The project aims to contain waste under sustainable development principles, leaving a clean and developed Turkey …

Turkey broke a new record in electricity generation from wind. According to data from the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources on January 24, 2020, Sunday, the share of wind energy in electricity production that took place in Turkey was 21.4 percent. Minister of Energy Fatih Dönmez who made an …

The population of bluefish has been declining at an alarming rate in Turkey’s Marmara Sea mainly due to pollution and overfishing, experts have said. There is an alarming decrease in the stock of bluefish in the inland seas due to overfishing and pollution, said Saadet Karakulak, an academic from Istanbul University’s Faculty of …

Anti-poverty campaigner Oxfam warned Monday that the world would face the biggest increase in global inequality on record as a result of the fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic unless governments radically reorganize their economies. In a report geared to inform discussions at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) online panels of political …

Turkey’s food sector survives pandemic year successfully both in domestic, international markets… Turkey’s food exports are expected to surpass $20 billion in 2020 for the first time thanks to the rising demand spurred by coronavirus related lockdown measures. While some industries were hit hard by the pandemic, some stood out …