Foreign Trade

Wholesale hazelnut prices have surged this harvest season due to frost damage in Türkiye, the world’s leading producer, where the crop yields are expected to shrink this year. Hazelnuts The last major frost-related event, before April, affecting crops in Türkiye, occurred in 2014. Following the frost this year, which took …

Press release… Uçak: ‘The quality of the products is suitable for export, that’s our only consolation.’ Hayrettin Uçak, Chair of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, stated that the citrus crop in the Aegean Region is expected to decline by 34 percent in 2025 due to frost events …

August, 2025… Wholesale hazelnut prices have surged this harvest season due to frost damage in Türkiye, the world’s leading producer, where the crop yields are expected to shrink this year. In April, a cold snap, unseen in years, affected a variety of domestically produced crops, pushing hazelnut prices higher even before the …

Press release… The climate crisis has had a clear impact on citrus production in the Aegean Region. With temperatures reaching -17 degrees in April and 45-50 degrees in July, Türkiye is experiencing the climate crisis very harshly in the agricultural sector. In April 2025, which has been described as a …

Approximately 50 tonnes of the 350 tonnes of ‘brown’ rock salt extracted from the salt marshes at the foot of Mount Beydağı in the Zara district of Sivas province is exported to Japan. Sivas… The harvest of the spring salt, which is produced in clay pools in the village of …

Sebahattin Arslantürk, Deputy Chairman of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB) Hazelnut and Hazelnut Products Sector Committee, announced that decline in hazelnut productivity raises alarm! Pointing out that productivity, which was above 100 kg per decare in Türkiye and worldwide between 2012 and 2021, has declined to 100 kg …

Press release… Sinan Kızıltan, Chairman of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM) Fisheries and Animal Products Sector Board, announced that Turkish salmon exports, which amounted to 29 million dollars in 2019, surged approximately 17-fold to 498 million dollars last year. The target for 2025 is 600 million dollars… Kızıltan stated that …

Press release… Gains in meat and vegetable oil price indices outweigh declines in cereals, dairy and sugar… 08/08/2025 Rome – The FAO Food Price Index, a benchmark for world food commodity prices, averaged 130.1 points in July 2025, up 1.6 percent from June, driven primarily by rising international prices of meat and vegetable …

European researchers find extreme climate events, such as droughts, floods, heavy rainfall and more, result in both domestic and international price hikes for agricultural products such as coffee, cocoa, rice, among others… August, 2025… Global food prices are on the rise with extreme weather conditions caused by climate change, as …

Press release… Sebahattin Arslantürk, Deputy Chairman of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB) Hazelnut and Hazelnut Products Sector Committee, announced that 300 TL and 10 dollars for hazelnuts would not be surprise! A Record Season is Coming: 300 TL and 10 Dollars for Hazelnuts Would Not Be a Surprise …