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Packaging that stops waste; could it be a new era for food?

A UK-based company, Osy Group, draws attention with its innovative antimicrobial packaging technology developed to extend the shelf life of fresh foods and reduce food waste by 50 percent. This new technology aims to reduce wastage by preserving the freshness of products such as fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, chicken and …

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Veysel Memiş: We aim to be a strategic trade partner in new markets

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 172.8 million dollars in September. Emphasising that the record-level increases they achieved in distant markets in the 9th month of the year were reflected …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: We achieved a 12 percent increase in dried fig exports

Press release… 12 percent increase in dried fig exports.. Dried fig exports closed the season with 292 million dollars… Export price of dried figs soared by 29 percent in foreign currency… The fruit of paradise, dried figs, left the 2023/24 season behind with an export amount of 292 million dollars …

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Jak Eskinazi: We celebrate the success of Söke Cotton on World Cotton Day!

Press release… Söke cotton, which crossed the borders from the Aegean Region, the land of fertile lands, made history as the first cotton product to be registered in the European Union. Türkiye celebrates the success of Söke cotton on 7 October World Cotton Day. Jak Eskinazi World Cotton Day will …

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FAO Food Price Index rises in September…

Press release… The benchmark for world food commodity prices saw its fastest increase in 18 months in September, with quotations up for all covered commodity groups, led by sugar, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international …

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Ahmet Antalyalı: As the Agriculture and Rural Development Support Institution (TKDK), we support producers with the aim of local production and consumption

Ahmet Abdullah Antalyalı, President of the Agriculture and Rural Development Support Institution (TKDK), stated that they support producers with the aim of local production and consumption by ensuring that added value remains locally. Indicating that the state attaches great importance to rural development grants, Antalyalı explained that they support 17 …

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Stop food waste! For people and planet!

The fifth International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) observed on the 29th of September 2024, with the theme ‘Climate Finance for Food Loss and Waste Reduction’. IDAFLW calls on public and private entities across the food system, as well as consumers, to unite in reducing food loss and …

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Kaan Sidar: Food waste is an unacceptable luxury!

Calling for collective action on International Food Loss and Waste Awareness Day, TÜGİS stated that food waste is an ‘unacceptable luxury’ in today’s world where hunger and malnutrition are serious problems. Kaan Sidar Kaan Sidar, President of the Turkish Food Employers’ Association (TÜGİS), who made statements on the occasion of …

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Mehmet Cirav: New hazelnut export season started with 30 percent hike

Press release… In the January-September period of 2024; hazelnut exports from Türkiye reached 214 thousand 323 tonnes and 1 billion 740 million 734 thousand dollars of foreign currency inflow was provided in return. When these export realisations are compared with the same period of the previous year, it corresponds to …

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Turkish dried fruit exporters are embarking on an expedition to India…

Press release… Aegean dried fruit exporters, which alone account for 60 percent of Türkiye’s annual dried fruit exports of 1.7 billion dollars, have India on their radar within the scope of the Ministry of Trade’s Far Countries Strategy. Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, under the coordination of the …

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