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EXPORT GATES OPENED FOR FRUIT AND OLIVE TREES; 50 MILLION DOLLARS CONTRIBUTION EXPECTED TO THE ORNAMENTAL PLANTS SECTOR… The ornamental plants sector gained momentum with an important regulation that it has been waiting for a long time. With the legal amendment, fruit and olive trees were again included in the …

Increased production forecasts, easing supply concerns drive decline from $12,931 peak… ISTANBUL… Cocoa prices have fallen by more than 30 percent in 2025, reversing the sharp gains seen in global markets last year. After hitting record highs, the commodity has been on a downward trend this year. The price per …

Press release… Veysel Memiş, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters Association (AHBİB), announced that they exported 151.1 million dollars in February. Stating that Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia were the leading countries to which they exported the most in the …

Turkish agricultural sector accounts for 7% of GDP, ranks 8th worldwide, according to UN data… Türkiye became a leader in agricultural output with $68.9 billion, as the importance of food security came to the fore following the pandemic and geopolitical conflicts around the world, according to the UN Food and …

Brooke Rollins outlines measures to address egg shortage, including biosecurity investments, imports… March, 2025 The US will import hundreds of millions of eggs from Türkiye and South Korea to address a severe shortage caused by an avian influenza outbreak and supply chain disruptions, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced on Friday. …

Press release… The exports of the cereals, pulses, oilseeds and products sector of the Southeastern Anatolia region surged by 5.6 percent in the first 2 months of the year and reached 588.1 million dollars. The sector, which realised 30.3 percent of total exports in Southeastern Anatolia, also maintained its export …

Antalya Commodity Exchange Cairman Ali Çandır stated that the prices of goods and services used in agriculture surged by 29.02 percent annually in January. There was also a monthly increase of 5.95 percent in the Agricultural Input Price Index in January. Ali Çandır, Chairman of the Antalya Commodity Exchange (ATB) …

Rising Meat and Falling Raw Milk Prices… The milk and meat sectors are in close interaction with each other in cattle breeding. Failure of the dairy sector to make money causes first a milk crisis and then a meat crisis and Türkiye has experienced this many times in the past. …

World coffee prices reached a multi-year high in 2024 – increasing 38.8 percent on the previous year’s average – mostly driven by inclement weather affecting key producing countries, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said. According to an FAO note on global coffee market trends, in December …

İbrahim Afyon, Head of the Central Union of Egg Producers of Türkiye, stated that egg exports from Türkiye to the USA started in February after the supply-induced crisis due to avian influenza in the USA. “We exported 7 thousand tonnes of eggs to the USA from January to March. 15 …