Foreign Trade

Press release… There is an excitement to start the new season in dried figs, the fruit of paradise. It was predicted that the 2023 yield of dried figs, in which Türkiye is the world leader in production and exports, will be at the level of 2022. Mehmet Ali Işık, Chairperson …

Press release… Aegean Exporters’ Associations’ (EIB) exports in August were recorded as 1 billion 522 million dollars. In August 2022, EIB’s exports, which reached 1 billion 531 million dollars in August, decreased by 0.5 per cent. While the members of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations exported 12 billion 179 million dollars …

Bloomberg writers Michael Hirtzer and Dominic Carey reported that, ″For more than half a century, US farmers dominated the international market for corn, shipping more of the critical crop than any other country to feed the world’s livestock, fill its stockpiles and manufacture its processed foods. ″No more. In the agricultural …

Press release… In the 2022/2023 hazelnut export season, which started on 1 September 2022 and ended on 31 August 2023, the amount of hazelnuts exported from Türkiye in the 2022/2023 hazelnut export season was 299 thousand 462 tonnes and 1 billion 798 million 876 thousand dollars of foreign currency inflow …

In coordination with UN, Türkiye continues efforts to revive Black Sea grain deal… ISTANBUL… Following Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea grain deal, which was implemented with the UN’s mediation and Turkey’s contribution, efforts to revive the deal continue. At a joint news conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov …

In Asia, grain and oilseed crops have suffered due to an uncommonly dry August as El Nino grew stronger, and predictions for less rain in September further threaten to hinder supplies. While wheat output forecasts are being revised lower due to dry weather in Australia, the world’s second-largest exporter, record-low monsoon rains …

Türkiye doubts Black Sea grain deal could survive without Russia, says President Erdoğan’s chief adviser… There is no alternative to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chief adviser Akif Çağatay Kılıç said on Monday.  Stressing the importance of the revival of the Black Sea grain deal, …

In 2022, the Netherlands exported 122.3 billion euros worth of agricultural goods. This is over 17 percent more than in 2021. The increase in the value of agricultural exports comes from higher export prices. This is reported by Wageningen Economic Research (WUR) and Statistics Netherlands (CBS) on the basis of …

Press release… Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) organised a Buyer Delegation Organisation for the dried fruit sector from Japan, which imports 65 billion dollars of food annually, on 24-25 August 2023 through the Ministry of Trade. Mehmet Ali Işık Aegean Exporters’ Associations Organic Products and Sustainability Coordinator Mehmet Ali Işık, Chairman …

Ukrainian farmers plan to expand the sown area of winter rapeseed crops for 2024 to a record 1.9 million hectares but may cut the sown area of winter wheat, an Agriculture Ministry survey revealed on Monday. The survey said that 45% of farmers did not plan to reduce the winter …