Foreign Trade

In the 2020-2021 season, the Turkish olive industry earned 105 million dollars from table olive exports and 72 million dollars from olive oil exports. Speaking at the ordinary financial general assembly of the Aegean Olive and Olive Oil Exporters’ Association for the years 2019 and 2020, Aegean Olive and Olive …

The 1st GastroRize National Rize Gastronomy Days, hosted by the Municipality of Rize, where the local flavours of the province were introduced. In the event that brought together names from the world of gastronomy, in addition to local tastes and gastronomy programmes, the provincial bio-diversity, tea and agriculture, local markets, …

Press release… Izmir Commodity Exchange June Ordinary Assembly Meeting was held on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, via video conference and with the wide participation of Assembly members. The main agenda of the meeting was the amount of agricultural production, the effect of the drought problem on agricultural products and the …

Press release… Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) realized an export of 1 billion 550 million dollars in June with an increase of 51 percent. EIB, which boosted its exports by 30 percent in the first half of 2021 and brought 7 billion 646 million dollars to Turkey, reached 14 billion 774 …

Press release… Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association (EYMSİB), which has increased its exports by 40 percent since 2018, aims to break a new record by exceeding 1 billion 200 million dollars in 2021. Aegean Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Exporters’ Association Board of Directors and Supervisory Board members informed …

‘We will be happy to share our knowledge and experience with friendly and brotherly Sudan,’ says Turkish deputy minister… KHARTOUM, Sudan Turkey and Sudan signed an agriculture cooperation protocol Tuesday.  Turkish Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Mehmet Hadi Tunç and an accompanying delegation first met with Sudan’s Agriculture and …

Press release… Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association (EYMSİB), which has increased its exports by 40 percent since 2018, aims to break a new record by exceeding 1 billion 200 million dollars in 2021. Aegean Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Exporters’ Association Board of Directors and Supervisory Board members informed …

Turkey offers a table of abundant resources for sustainable gastronomy tourism, according to a Turkish culinary expert who says authenticity should be preserved to maintain it. Zeynep Kakınç “To make the most of this potential, we should make the preservation of the local gastronomic heritage our focus,” Zeynep Kakınç, chair of the Istanbul-based Gastronomic Society of …

Press release… The poultry industry broke a record in exports. Bedri Girit, the Chairperson of Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Associaton, said that poultry sector, which brought in 347 million dollars of foreign currency to the country in the January-May period of 2020, increased its exports to 440 million …

Press release… Although the dried fig harvest was 90 thousand tonnes in the 2019-20 season and 85 thousand tonnes in the 2020-21 season, it has already reached 60 thousand tonnes, catching the export figure of last year with an acceleration of 15 percent on value basis. The dried fruit industry …