Agribusiness

Press release… TÜRKİYE MAINTAINED ITS EXPORT VALUE IN FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLES DESPITE CLIMATE SHOCK… Ferhat Gürüz, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, announced that Türkiye’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports in May amounted to 283.6 million dollars. Noting that there …

Press release… With a harvest of 475,000 tonnes and along with 115,000 tonnes of olive oil carried over from last year, Türkiye which ranks second in the world in olive oil production this year, has launched a ‘licensed warehousing for olive oil’ project that is unique in the world and …

Press release… China, the world’s second largest economy, which imported 2.6 trillion dollars worth of goods in 2024, is expecting more participants from Türkiye to attend the China Import Expo, which it began organising in 2018 with the aim of importing more from around the world and providing a platform …

June, 2025… Türkiye has launched a new forestry initiative aimed at combating climate change and forest fires across the country. The $400 million Climate-Resilient Forestry Project, developed in cooperation with the World Bank, was announced by Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumaklı during a speech at the International Workshop on …

Climate change is on track to reduce by 11 percent in 2100 the yields that today provide two-thirds of humanity’s calories from crops, even taking into account adaptation to a warming world, scientists have said. As soon as 2050, this “moderate” scenario in which greenhouse gas emissions peak around 2040 and slowly taper …

Improving weather conditions in sugar-producing areas like Brazil, India factor behind price drop, experts say… A pound of sugar tested its four-year low at 0.1626 dollars on Wednesday, down 4 percent compared to the end of last month and 15 percent versus the start of the year. Expectations of an …

Tiryaki Agro has more than doubled the size of its existing facility with a new 7,500 square metre land investment in Türkiye’s southeastern province of Gaziantep. According to a statement from the company, Tiryaki Agro, which operates a total of 27 factories and processing facilities across 10 locations in three …

Gedik Chicken (Piliç), the first poultry company to export from Türkiye to EU countries, has continued its trade with the Netherlands and other European Union countries through partnerships. Following the start of exports, Gedik Piliç products have attracted significant interest from EU countries and are preparing to take their place …

Bendevi Palandöken, President of the Confederation of Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen (TESK), stated that comprehensive steps must be taken to ensure sustainability in agriculture and encourage young people to return to rural areas. Palandöken warned that if agriculture is not made attractive, low production and price increases will continue, and …

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) has established two greenhouses for growing tea and citrus seedlings in the Lenkeran region of Azerbaijan. Baku, June, 2025 As part of a project carried out in collaboration between TİKA and the Azerbaijan Ministry of Agriculture’s Scientific Research Institute for Fruit and Tea …