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Press release… Cereals, vegetable oils and dairy drive FAO Food Price Index lower for second month in a row… 5 August 2021, Rome – Global food commodity prices fell in July for the second consecutive month, according to a benchmark United Nations report released today. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 123.0 points …

Press release… This year’s export journey of seedless table grape, which has a 73 percent share of Turkey’s table grape exports, begins on Friday, August 6, 2021. The export date of Mevlana (Razaki) table grapes is set for Thursday, August 12, 2021. While Turkey’s export of fresh grapes was 150 …

Press release… Mediterranean Exporters’ Associations (AKİB), in July, reached an export value of 1.17 billion dollars with an increase of 41.2 percent compared to the same period of the previous year and performed more than 4 times the country average. AKİB, which supported general exports by 7.8 percent in July, …

According to the new report published by the United Nations, there will be serious famine in 23 different points around the world in the next 4 months. The 2 sub-organizations of the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), in their advice published …

Press release… FAO continues to supply training to food entrepreneurs, suppliers and retailers in the fight against food waste as part of the ‘Save Your Food’ campaign… 3 August 2021, Ankara, Turkey – Each year over 1.3 billion tonnes of food produced worldwide is lost or wasted. Furthermore, the volume of wasted …

Press release… A working group was created for sustainable production and export. Ömer Celal Umur, Chairperson of Aegean Tobacco Exporters’ Association, stated that the tobacco product item with the highest increase in 2020 was hookah (narghile) tobacco, which achieved an increase of 46 percent compared to the previous year. Umur …

Press release… Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) realized an export of 1 billion 238 million dollars with an increase of 4 percent in July. EIB, which boosted its exports by 26 percent in the January-July period and brought 8 billion 884 million dollars to Turkey, reached 14 billion 820 million dollars …

Unexpectedly dry weather conditions in Turkey between April and June in many regions led to lowerwheat and barley production forecasts for MY 2021/22. The wheat production forecast is 16.5 MMT,barley production forecast is 4.5 MMT. Planting for the first corn crop finished and production isforecast at 6.8 MMT. The Turkish …

With wildfires ravaging Turkey, killing at least eight people and burning thousands of square meters of forests, the Turkish Forestry Ministry has announced that “new plantations will be made as the rain will start by the end of October.” The announcement directed individuals, public institutions, universities and the country’s business world …

Turkey’s three big cities have sufficient resources for drinking water, according to official figures. Istanbul has enough water to last seven months, while Ankara has enough for six and Izmir 12. Although there is a meteorological drought taking hold of Turkey due to climate change and the consequential increase in …