Foreign Trade

Ukrainian producers of organic products have achieved something almost unbelievable through the support of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL. In 2022, the year of the war, Ukraine managed to increase its exports of organic agricultural products by 13 %. From 14–17 February 2023, Ukraine will once again attend …

Press release… Stating that dried figs are produced on more than 7 million trees in an area of 37 thousand hectares in Aydın province, Aydın Agriculture and Forestry Provincial Director Ahmet Öktem underlined that 31 percent of the dried fig production areas in Aydın are organic farming. Sharing the knowledge …

Press release… Cengiz Balık: We must pay attention to pesticides so that we do not reduce our share in existing markets! Cengiz Balık, Vice Chairman of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, stated that 2022 was a difficult year, but 2023 will be an even more difficult year. …

Press release… Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association (EKMMİB) brought together all parties of the sector at the “Dried Fig Board” meeting in Aegean province of Aydın, the capital of dried fig production, for the sustainable export of dried figs where Türkiye is the world leader in production and …

Press release… Aegean fresh fruit, vegetable and products exporters set an export target of 1 billion 400 million dollars in the 100th Anniversary of the Republic. Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association (EYMSİB), which broke export records for 5 years in a row by delivering the flavours produced in …

Press release… Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Association, which realizes 60 percent of Türkiye’s aquaculture and animal products exports to the USA, participated in the Winter Fancy Food Show Fair held in Las Vegas on January 15-17. Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Association Chairperson Bedri Girit said that …

In the export season, which started on August 1, 2022, of the geographical indication registered product in the EU, 49,355 thousand tons of dried apricots were sold in 6 months. Malatya Commodity Exchange Chairman Ramazan Özcan said, “We are faced with a table that can generate 460 million dollars in …

Ukraine’s harvest of grains and oilseeds will see further declines this year as Russia’s invasion drags on, an industry official warned on Jan. 26, putting further pressure on global prices for essential foodstuffs. Planting acreage will again shrink and the total harvest is forecast at 53 million tons for 2023 after 65 …

Price indices for vegetable oils, dairy, sugar drive January decline, while cereals, meat were largely stable, says UN body… Global food prices fell for the 10th consecutive month in January, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 131.2 points in January, …

Release date: 03/02/2023 FAO’s latest forecast for world cereal production in 2022 has been raised by 8.3 million tonnes (0.3 percent) this month to 2 765 million tonnes, albeit still 1.7 percent lower year-on-year. The increase is predominantly related to wheat, reflecting upward revisions made for Australia and the Russian Federation, which …