Finance

Press release… Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) organised a Buyer Delegation Organisation for the dried fruit sector from Japan, which imports 65 billion dollars of food annually, on 24-25 August 2023 through the Ministry of Trade. Mehmet Ali Işık Aegean Exporters’ Associations Organic Products and Sustainability Coordinator Mehmet Ali Işık, Chairman …

Drought, extreme heat have caused production to fall off a cliff… OVIEDO, Spain  The wholesale price of Spanish extra virgin olive oil hit a fresh all-time high on Tuesday, above €8,200 ($8,880) per metric ton ($8,900), according to Bloomberg.  This came as Spain, which produces around 45% of the world’s …

Press release… The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Türkiye has launched a new e-commerce platform called “HepYerinden” (Always the Local) with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. This launch took place during an event held …

Press release… Türkiye’s exports of dried figs, raisins and dried apricots, of which the country is the world leader, surpassed 1 billion dollars… Türkiye is the world leader in production and exports of superfoods with high nutritional value; sultanas, dried apricots and dried figs generated export revenues of 1 billion …

Fishermen in the Black Sea region are hopeful that they will catch plenty of anchovy in this hunting season that will start on Sept. 1. Atıf Malkoç However, bonito will probably be in short supply, said Atıf Malkoç, the head of the Samsun Region Aquaculture Cooperatives Union. “Unlike this time around last year, we have …

Türkiye aims to ramp up its food and agricultural products export revenues to 50 billion dollars in 2028, says Mustafa Gültepe, the president of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TİM). Mustafa Gültepe The country generated some 27 billion dollars in food and agricultural products exports last year. In the first seven months of 2023, the agriculture industry’s …

Press release… The Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB) held a “Hazelnut Sector Press Conference” with the participation of Mehmet Cirav, Sebahattin Arslantürk and Tahsin Büyükaydın, the leading hazelnut industrialists and exporters of the region, under the chairmanship of Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan, Vice President of the DKİB. Ahmet Hamdi Gürdoğan, …