Finance

Türkiye’s seafood and animal products sector is looking to expand its footprint in Japan, a country that has emerged as a major destination for Turkish tuna and farmed fish such as sea bass and gilt-head bream. Mehmet Ali Kılıçkaya To strengthen ties, an Istanbul seafood exporters’ association, (İstanbul Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ …

Press release… The Eastern Black Sea Region saw exports totaling 1.018 billion dollars from January to August 2025 from the provinces of Trabzon, Rize, Artvin and Gümüşhane. In the first eight months of 2025, exports from the Eastern Black Sea Region amounted to 781.078 million dollars from Trabzon, 132.905 million …

Press release… In the January-August period of 2025, 175,000 tonnes of hazelnuts were exported from Türkiye, generating 1.467 billion dollars in foreign currency inflows. Compared to the same period of the previous year, these exports decreased by 7 percent in quantity and 5 percent in value. Mehmet Cirav, Chairman of …

Press release… Interfresh Eurasia, a showcase for the fresh fruit and vegetable, dried fruit, and fruit and vegetable product sectors that generated 8 billion dollars in foreign currency for Türkiye in 2024, will be held at FUARIZMIR in Izmir from September 18-20, 2025. This year, the fair, heavily supported by …

Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) released on Friday its new forecast for global cereal production in 2025, now pegged at 2 961 million tonnes – a new record high and 3.5 percent above last year’s level. The new Cereal Supply and Demand Brief attributed the upward revisions to …

New forecasts point to growth in global cereal output, utilization, stocks and trade… 05/09/2025 Rome – The benchmark of world food commodity prices remained largely unchanged in August, as increases in meat, sugar and vegetable oil prices offset declines in cereal and dairy quotations, according to the new report released by the Food …

Eren Günhan Ulusoy, Chair of the International Association of Flour Industrialists and Grain Producers (IAOM) for Eurasia, stated that Türkiye has been the world’s leading flour exporter since the 2014-2015 season, saying, “We expect or rather, are confident, that it will be the world’s leading flour exporter in the 11th …

Malatya Turgut Özal University’s Apricot and Apricot Products Development Application and Research Centre has published the Dried Apricot Foreign Trade Report for August 2025. The report includes information on the dried apricot sector, a driving force in Malatya’s economy, for August 2025 and the first eight months of the year. …

Press release… Dried fig exports reached 58,903 tonnes… Türkiye exported 58,903 tonnes of dried figs during the 2024/25 season, which began on September 25, 2024 and ended August 30, 2025, generating 353,912,000 dollars in foreign currency revenue. Dried fig exports reached 283,416,000 dollars equivalent to 61,859 tonnes in the same …

Mustafa Sacit İnan, an agricultural engineer at the Manisa Viticulture Research Institute, stated that the wire-curtain (wire-display) method improves the quality of raisins, but producers are discouraged from using it due to its high cost. The Sultana seedless grape harvest has begun in Türkiye’s leading agrifood province of Manisa and …