Foreign Trade

Across Northern and Western Europe, vegetable producers are contemplating halting their activities because of the financial hit from Europe’s energy crisis, further threatening food supplies. Surging power and gas prices will impact crops grown through the winter in heated greenhouses such as tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, and those which need …

Flower growers in the southern provinces of Antalya and Isparta are still busy trying to meet soaring demand from the U.K. amid the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Demand from the florists in Britain for cut flowers in Antalya has soared 90 percent and planeloads of carnations have already been sent to the U.K. This …

The looming energy crisis in Europe and the war in Ukraine that hampers production in the continent offer huge opportunities for Turkish agriculture products exporters, according to people from the industry. There have been reports suggesting that farmers in Europe stop production and greenhouses are closing. But at a time when farmers in the …

Press release… Promotion attack from the aquaculture and animal products sector… The Turkish fishery and animal products sector, which exceeded its 2023 export target of 3.5 billion dollars in February 2022 and increased its exports by 33 percent to 4 billion 56 million dollars in the last one-year period, strengthens …

Press release…. Seedless raisin exports exceeded 250 thousand tonnes… Türkiye, which is by far the world leader in the production and export of raisins, earned 441 million dollars from seedless raisins in the 2021/22 season with an increase of 3 percent. Seedless raisin exports, which started the 2021/22 season on …

US says Russia has exacerbated global food security crisis… ISTANBUL The US said late Thursday that the historic Istanbul grain agreement for safe exports from Ukrainian ports brought down global food prices by bringing over 2.7 million metric tonnes of grain to world markets. In a press release, the State …

Turkish florists are resorting to cargo planes instead of trucks as they rush to send as many flowers as they can to the United Kingdom to meet a deluge of orders after the death of Queen Elizabeth. Orders for cut flowers have soared by 90 percent since the queen died, …

Turkish salmon exports from the Black Sea region increased by 149 percent in the January-August period of the year, reaching 81 million 645 thousand 462 dollars and 11 thousand 183 tonnes of Turkish salmon were exported. Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Assocation (DKİB) Supervisory Board Member and Deputy Chairman of the …

Press release… The Capital of Olive, Akhisar, left its mark on WorldFood! Akhisar, the district of Türkiye’s western province of Manisa, was once again the favourite of the 28th International Food Products and Technologies Fair-WorldFood. Visitors, who showed great interest in the stand opened in cooperation with Akhisar Commodity Exchange …

Press release… Muğla and İzmir provinces realize 62 percent of the annual 1.4 billion dollars of fishery industry which is among the star sectors of Türkiye’s exports. Sinan Kızıltan Explaining that they contributed 953 million dollars to 1.4 billion dollars of fisheries exports in 2021 as Aegean Region, Chair of …