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Press release… Due to the start of the tangerine season, Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association held a “Mandarin Harvest Ceremony” in Gümüldür region of Izmir, the capital of world-famous satsuma tangerine. Emphasizing that the tangerine is the export champion with an amount of 453 million dollars in fruit …

Türkiye’s foreign trade deficit soared by 268.1 percent in September compared to the same month of the previous year and reached 9 billion 595 million dollars and increased by 156.3 percent in the January-September period to 83 billion 97 million dollars. On the other hand, foreign trade surplus of food …

Russia has said it is suspending its participation in the agreement to ensure the continuation of Ukrainian grain exports — vital for food supplies to poor countries — linking the decision to a drone attack on Russian ships in occupied Crimea on Saturday morning. The defence ministry announced the move, and …

Harvest has started in Antalya’s Döşemealtı district, where 25 percent of Türkiye’s pomegranate needs are met. Turgay Genç Turgay Genç, Mayor of Döşemealtı, who participated in the harvest, said, “90 percent of the 30-40 thousand tonnes of pomegranate harvested is exported to Europe and the Middle East. It put a …

The very first Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty by 2030… Today, seven years after the goals were agreed and on the heels of a global pandemic, conflict and economic crises, a world without poverty seems out of reach. The World Bank estimates that, by the end of 2022, 685 million …

Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will establish “Agricultural Consultancy” Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Vahit Kirişci announced, in a written statement, “I hope we will release authorized agricultural engineers, veterinarians, food engineers, aquaculture engineers to the field under the name of Agricultural Consultancy in the coming period. In this way, …

The Ministry of Agriculture has published: Here are the crops lists to be supported in the basins in 2022… Within the scope of the Basin-Based Support Model, which is based on many items of plant production supports, the crop lists to be supported in the basins for 2022 have been …

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Vahit Kirişci stated that farmers were supported to produce during the fight against inflation and that interest-free loans were provided through Ziraat Bank and said, “We increased the agricultural support for 2022 from 25.8 billion dollars to 54 billion dollars in 2023.” ‘WE SUPPORT OUR …

Charitable food aid is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound of systemic inequality in the UK and US, say signatories including Prof. Olivier de Schutter, a former UN special rapporteur on the right to food… Olivier de Schutter At a time when the UK’s likely break with Europe is widely …

Özkan Taşpınar, president of the National Grain Council, told daily Hürriyet that Türkiye’s barley production will be around 8.1 million tonnes this year, while its need is 8.5 million tonnes. “I think the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) decided to import to complete the consumption amount,” he said. “Corn, barley and …