Foreign Trade

Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) released on Friday its new forecast for global cereal production in 2025, now pegged at 2 961 million tonnes – a new record high and 3.5 percent above last year’s level. The new Cereal Supply and Demand Brief attributed the upward revisions to …

New forecasts point to growth in global cereal output, utilization, stocks and trade… 05/09/2025 Rome – The benchmark of world food commodity prices remained largely unchanged in August, as increases in meat, sugar and vegetable oil prices offset declines in cereal and dairy quotations, according to the new report released by the Food …

Eren Günhan Ulusoy, Chair of the International Association of Flour Industrialists and Grain Producers (IAOM) for Eurasia, stated that Türkiye has been the world’s leading flour exporter since the 2014-2015 season, saying, “We expect or rather, are confident, that it will be the world’s leading flour exporter in the 11th …

Malatya Turgut Özal University’s Apricot and Apricot Products Development Application and Research Centre has published the Dried Apricot Foreign Trade Report for August 2025. The report includes information on the dried apricot sector, a driving force in Malatya’s economy, for August 2025 and the first eight months of the year. …

Press release… Dried fig exports reached 58,903 tonnes… Türkiye exported 58,903 tonnes of dried figs during the 2024/25 season, which began on September 25, 2024 and ended August 30, 2025, generating 353,912,000 dollars in foreign currency revenue. Dried fig exports reached 283,416,000 dollars equivalent to 61,859 tonnes in the same …

Press release… 15 At the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association’s Advisory General Assembly, a recommendation was made to kick off the 2025/26 dried fig season of which Türkiye is a global leader in production and export, on October 15, 2025. The Ministry of Trade will make the final …

According to a report by the International Grains Council, global grain production could rise by 83 million tonnes to 2.4 billion tonnes in the 2025/2026 season. Maize and wheat yields are also projected to show significant spikes. According to the International Grains Council (IGC), global grain production is expected to …

Products produced in Türkiye’s Northwestern province of Kırklareli, one of Türkiye’s major milk production centres, are exported to 17 countries. Gökhan Karaca The region, home to modern dairy farms, produces an average of 1,000 tonnes of milk daily with 150,000 head of cattle. Milk produced in 34 European Union-approved farms …

Tariş Fig Union Chairman Ersin Kacar announced the purchasing prices for the 2025-2026 dried fig season. Board members met at the Tariş Fig Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Union facilities to determine dried fig purchasing prices for the harvest season. Following the meeting, Kacar made a statement wishing producers a prosperous season, …

Press release… Following the end of the civil war in Syria, Türkiye’s exports to Syria surged significantly. Between January and June 2025, the country’s exports to Syria surged by 51 percent, from 999 million dollars to 1.5 billion dollars. Hayrettin Uçak Exports from the Aegean Exporters’ Association (EIB) to Syria …