Foreign Trade

Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) on Feb. 22 hosted an agri-focused virtual business forum with New Zealand. With climate change and rising food demand in view, speakers focused on the use of technology and joint collaborations to increase bilateral trade. Wendy Hinton, New Zealand’s ambassador to Turkey, said the twin …

Kemal Kaçmaz, President of the National Citrus Council, said that citrus is the most important sub-group in the fresh fruit and vegetable sector. Stating that they welcome the announcement of this year as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables by the The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United …

Press release… Olive oil, the elixir of a long and healthy life spreading from the Mediterranean to the world, was introduced to the leading importers in the US food industry and the purchasing directors of hotels and restaurants with the Hybrid Tasting event. US has become the first country that …

Malatya Commodity Exchange Chairman Ramazan Özcan said that the Far East is a new market for dried apricot exporters. Özcan said, “In 2018, we exported about 3 thousand 200 tons by leaping to China, where we exported about 500 tons in the previous year. You know, last year, the Covid-19 …

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world economic order as we know it and may be the gravest challenge that Africa’s leaders have faced since independence. Africa, like other regions, is reeling from the pandemic’s economic and social consequences. The global economic downturn is undercutting every sector of Africa’s economy. …

The market share of Turkish products in ketchup, mayonnaise and sauce categories is gradually increasing in Europe and the USA. Turkey made exports about 19.4 million dollars in tomato-based sauce, 157 million dollars in tomato paste and 15 million dollars in mayonnaise last year. Hakan Koçoğlu, General Manager of Assan …

Press release… Despite the pandemic, exports of furniture paper and forestry products in the Aegean Region reached 695 million dollars in 2020, remaining above the export figure of the previous year. Aegean Furniture Paper and Forestry Products Exporters’ Association President Cahit Doğan Yağcı said that Turkey’s overall exports through these …

Press release… Turkey’s largest agro-industrial zone, Dikili Agriculture Based Specialized Organized Industrial Zone (TDİOSB) is waiting for investors. TDİOSB will increase the production of fresh fruits and vegetables in the Aegean Region by 80 thousand tonnes per year, also provide employment for 3 thousand 500 people and produce with renewable …

Turkey’s Tea Enterprises Directorate sold 132,000 tonnes of processed tea last year… Rize, Turkey Turkey’s state-owned tea company will export Matcha green tea powder to the US this March, said the company head. “Exports to the US will start with 10,000 boxes, and will be increased on request,” Yusuf Ziya …

Kayseri Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry Mustafa Şahin said that Kayseri province, which has a say in the production of apples, has the capacity to meet the apple need of Libya and Russia. Mustafa Şahin, who visited Yahyalı district noted that 6.7 percent of Turkey’s apple need has been …