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Tea comes from environments that meet specific requirements, making it one of best known in Africa… Hamza Kyeyune…  KAMPALA, Uganda  Uganda is endowed with a favorable climate, fertile soils, altitude, plenty of sunshine and abundant rainfall for tea growing. Tea is largely grown along the Lake Victoria crescent, the lower …

Press release… Alper Alhat said that Akhisar is Turkey’s leader in table olive production, Akhisar Commodity Exchange Chairman Alper Alhat said, “We are also increasing day by day in olive oil. The most modern facilities, the most hardworking businesses are in Akhisar district of Manisa province. We do great things …

Press release… Hilmi Sürek, Chairperson of Tariş Olive and Olive Oil Union, said that the price of 35 TL they announced was a figure that would satisfy the producers. Hilmi Sürek Hilmi Sürek stated that they set a price of 35 TL for extra virgin oils in the 2021-2022 period …

840 million dollars resource for sustainable agriculture… Denizbank provided a foreign source of 840 million dollars with a sustainability-related syndication loan. Financing sustainable agriculture, which is of great importance in ensuring food security, was among the performance criteria of the transaction. The transaction was the largest syndicated loan in the …

Despite an expected record world cereal production in 2021, global cereal inventories are seen heading for a contraction in 2021/22, according to new forecasts in FAO’s Cereal Supply and Demand Brief, released. The forecast for world cereal output in 2021 is now pegged at 2 793 million tonnes, down by 6.7 …

Press release… In the 9-month period, dried fruit exports exceeded 1 billion dollars… Dried fruit exports run to 1.5 billion dollars… The dried fruit sector, which is one of the traditional exporting sectors of Turkey, increased its exports by 11 percent from 927 million dollars to 1 billion 30 million …

Press release… Apple exports increased by 65 percent, apple juice exports also rose by 60 percent… Apple and apple juice exports run to 400 million dollars… Apple harvest has started in a wide geography in Turkey, which is among the top three countries in the world with an annual apple …

In the first 3 months of the new export season, 28 thousand 675 thousand tonnes of dried apricots were exported from Malatya province, where the highest apricot production is made in the world and 111 million 988 thousand dollars income was obtained. Malatya apricot, which has geographical indication registration in …

Press release… Vladimir Rakhmanin, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, represented FAO at the 8th Ministerial Conference on Food Security and Agricultural Development on 25–27 October 2021 in Istanbul. Vladimir Rakhmanin FAO has reiterated its support for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in the area …