Foreign Trade

İsmail Yılmaz, Chair of the Central Anatolia Ornamental Plants and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that the loans and supports provided demonstrate that the agricultural sector is being neglected. Yılmaz underlined that while cut flower production costs are rising, export figures are declining. “Last year, we exported 481 million stems of …

World Pasta Day 2025, themed “From Tradition to the Future,” was held at the Conrad Istanbul Bosphorus from October 24–26, 2025, hosted by the Turkish Pasta Industrialists’ Association (TMSD) and the Pasta Producers and Industrialists’ Association (MÜSAD), in collaboration with the International Pasta Organization (IPO). This major gathering revisited the …

The Antalya Commodity Exchange (ATB) held a Cut Flower Sectoral Analysis Meeting with the participation of industry stakeholders to assess developments in the cut flower sector. The meeting, chaired by ATB President Ali Çandır and moderated by ATB 6th Professional Committee President Ertan Altundağ, was attended by İsmail Yılmaz, President …

Disruptions Are Call to “Reimagine Trade”, WTO DG Says… New WTO figures show that trade in both food and agricultural goods grew 7 percent in the first six months of this year, compared to the same period last year – although prospects for 2026 now appear gloomier than previously. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala …

Press release… Türkiye exports pasta to 168 countries… Türkiye ranks second in the world in pasta exports… Türkiye targets 1 billion dollars in pasta exports… Muhammet Öztürk, Chair of the Aegean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters’ Association, announced that Türkiye’s pasta exports have soared by 125 percent in the …

Press release… Norway: New Target for Fresh Fruits, Vegetables and Vegetable Products The fresh fruit and vegetable and vegetable products sector, which generated 6.1 billion dollars in foreign currency for Türkiye in 2024, has placed Norway, a Northern European country, on its radar. Hayrettin Uçak The Aegean Fresh Fruit and …

Press release… Öztürk: “We are the strongest food export sector.” Muhammet Öztürk, Chair of the Aegean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds, and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that the cereals, pulses, oilseeds and products sector is the strongest food export sector, with exports of 9.047 billion dollars between January and September 2025. He …

About 40 percent of the agricultural land in Romania belongs to foreign investors, according to a study the European Parliament carried out in 2015, reports local Ziarul Financiar. Foreigners hold 5.3 million hectares of farmland in Romania, as the total agricultural land amounts to 13.3 million hectares. Foreign investors from …

Press release… The target for the 2025/26 season is 400 million dollars… Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association, announced that their aim to maintain their global leadership in dried fig production and exports. saying, “We are continuously working to ensure the healthy and …

World’s largest soybean consumer turns to Brazil despite higher costs as American soybeans become ‘politically off-limits’ due to increasing tensions… ISTANBUL… As trade tensions between the US and China continue with more and more measures from the two sides, soybeans have become a new frontier in the trade wars. The …