Foreign Trade

Press release… The vegetable oil sector accounted for 58 dollars of every 100 dollars exported from the Aegean… Muhammet Öztürk, who announced the 2022 export scorecard of the Aegean Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association (EHBYİB) on the basis of sectors, said in his written statement, “Our vegetable …

Press release… Believing that one of the most important pillars of sustainability for a green and livable world is to increase organic production and exports, the Turkish organic sector presented Turkish organic foods to the world at the BioFach Organic Products Fair, the biggest meeting of the world organic sector. …

Press release… The big world players will meet at the Dry Beans and Special Crop International Summit 2023 – the biggest event of the year on Pulses and Special Crops. Scheduled for the 30th and 31st of March in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, the event is a unique opportunity for …

Press release… Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) data reveals that the low exchange rate-low interest policy supports imports more than exports! While Türkiye had a foreign trade deficit of 46 billion dollars in 2021, it jumped to 110 billion dollars in 2022. Jak Eskinazi Commenting on Türkiye’s foreign trade data, Aegean …

Press release… While Türkiye exported 25 billion dollars of food products in 2022, the grain, pulses, oilseeds sector was at the peak of food exports with an export of 11.4 billion dollars. The sector alone realized 46 percent of Türkiye’s food exports. Cereals, pulses and oilseeds sector which is the …

Restrictions come into effect Wednesday and are valid until June 30… MOSCOW… Under a decree passed last December, effective Wednesday, Russia has limited its grain exports to foreign countries to the amount of 25.5 million tons. The restrictions will be valid until June 30, and do not apply to grain …

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 …