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Press release… Gains in meat and vegetable oil price indices outweigh declines in cereals, dairy and sugar… 08/08/2025 Rome – The FAO Food Price Index, a benchmark for world food commodity prices, averaged 130.1 points in July 2025, up 1.6 percent from June, driven primarily by rising international prices of meat and vegetable …

European researchers find extreme climate events, such as droughts, floods, heavy rainfall and more, result in both domestic and international price hikes for agricultural products such as coffee, cocoa, rice, among others… August, 2025… Global food prices are on the rise with extreme weather conditions caused by climate change, as …

Press release… Sebahattin Arslantürk, Deputy Chairman of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB) Hazelnut and Hazelnut Products Sector Committee, announced that 300 TL and 10 dollars for hazelnuts would not be surprise! A Record Season is Coming: 300 TL and 10 Dollars for Hazelnuts Would Not Be a Surprise …

Press release… Türkiye’s eastern Anatolia’s province of Malatya, which meets a large portion of the world’s dried apricot demand, is facing its most challenging production season in history. The agricultural frost and cold spell in April 2025 caused significant damage by catching apricot trees in bloom. It is estimated that …

Ice cream, exported from Türkiye to more than 30 countries, accounts for 14.5 percent of total milk and dairy product exports. The Packaged Milk and Dairy Products Industrialists’ Association (ASÜD) announced that traditional Turkish ice cream contributes to the promotion of the country by integrating into the tourism sector. The …

Press relese… A promotional film has been prepared as part of the global branding effort for Turkish salmon, whose exports have increased 17-fold in the last five years within the Turkish fisheries sector. The Turkish Exporters’ Assembly’s (TIM) Fisheries and Animal Products Sector Board is implementing a project to ramp …

At a meeting hosted by Aegean province of Aydın, home to some of the world’s highest quality figs, dried fig exports for 2024 were evaluated and the 2025 route for dried figs was determined. At a meeting hosted by Aydın province, home to some of the world’s highest quality figs, …

The Presidency’s Agriculture and Food Policies Board has launched an initiative to tackle Türkiye’s annual food waste, estimated at 23 million tons and costing the country tens of billions of dollars. According to the Turkish Foundation for Waste Prevention (TİSVA), per capita waste in the country reaches about 102 kilograms each year, with fruits and …

Ahmet Güldal, General Manager of the Turkish Grain Board (TMO), announced that, based on field observations, the hazelnut harvest is expected to be 453,000 tonnes this year. Ankara… In his assessment, Güldal stated that they are still at the beginning of the hazelnut harvest season and that, as in previous …

In the January-July period of 2025, 161,756 tonnes of hazelnuts were exported from Türkiye, generating 1.348 billion dollars in foreign currency inflows. Compared to the same period of the previous year, these exports decreased by 5 percent in quantity and 2 percent in value. Sebahattin Arslantürk, Deputy Chairman of the …