Extension – Information

The Chinese government has authorised the production of the country’s first genetically modified wheat strain. This is the first important step towards the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) food products. Despite rapid advances in areas as diverse as artificial intelligence, telecommunications, renewable energy and electric vehicles, Asia lags far behind …

Press release… “Our primary goal is to remove the export restrictions on bulk and barreled olive oil exports” M. Emre Uygun, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Olive and Olive Oil Exporters’ Association (EZZIB), stated that Türkiye has made great investments in the olive sector in the …

Press release… Sinan Kızıltan, Chairman of the Sector Board of Turkish Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Associations, stated that the exports of the fishery sector in 2023 reached 1.7 billion dollars. Sinan Kızıltan “The United Kingdom was the 5th country to which the Fisheries and Animal Products sector exported the …

Türkiye’s citrus exports rose 16 percent in January-April when compared to the year earlier to reach 475 million dollars, according to a head of a local exporters association on Sunday, with shipments to one of the top markets, Iraq jumping nearly 400 percent in the same period. Citrus “In 2023, …

Press release… TMMOB (Union of Turkish Engineers and Architecture Chambers) Chamber of Food Engineers emphasised the inaccuracy of limiting the recruitment of personnel to the public sector in the savings package in the public sector and said, “It is not possible to control food enterprises with insufficient personnel. Food safety …

Press release. A joint statement by 20 organisations that determine the fate of the olive oil sector in Türkiye! Left to right; Mustafa Tan, Emre Uygun, Fikret Akova, Güngör Şarman The 20 institutions and associations that determine the fate of the Turkish olive and olive oil sector, came together at …

Press release… Dikili Agriculture Based Specialised Organised Industrial Zone (Dikili TDİOSB) which is one of the largest geothermally heated agriculture-based organised industrial zones in Europe and Türkiye, established in cooperation with the Governorship of Izmir, Izmir Chamber of Commerce, Aegean Region Chamber of Industry, Izmir Commodity Exchange, Aegean Exporters’ Associations, …

Press release… Southeastern Anatolia’s exports of cereals, pulses, oil seeds and products sector in the first 4 months of the year was 1.1 billion dollars. Celal Kadooğlu Compared to the same period of the previous year, the country to which the cereal exporters in the region, whose exports soared by …

İlhan Ayhan, Head of Antalya Red Meat Producers Association, said that 95 percent of the livestock producers’ enterprises in Türkiye are unlicensed. “Our producers want to build licensed businesses, but due to the Great Plain Protection Area Project, our producers have great difficulty in obtaining a licence,” he said. İlhan …

170 tea factories in Türkiye… In Türkiye, today around 1.5 million tonnes of green tea leaves are harvested annually and processed in 216 different tea processing factories. Mehmet Erdoğan A total of 170 of those factories belong to the private sector, while the remaining 46 are public institutions, according to …