Agricultural Economy

Press release… Aegean Olive and Olive Oil Exporters’ Association Chairman Emre Uygun announced that table olive exports surpassed 200 million dollars… Giving information about the performance of table olive exports, Uygun said, “Although our table olive exports decreased by 22 percent on quantity basis in the 2023/24 season and reached …

Cocoa yields will be “destroyed” by 2030 without financial support and fairer markets, Ivory Coast farmers have warned. The West African nation is the world’s largest producer of cocoa, with farmers in the Bafing-Tonkpi region supplying chocolate to global markets, including the United Kingdom. But years of depressed prices have …

Türkiye faces increasing climate disasters, with frost, drought and temperature shifts threatening agriculture… This year, numerous disasters have occurred worldwide due to sudden temperature fluctuations. In Türkiye, unusually warm temperatures, exceeding seasonal norms from February to April, caused plants to bloom prematurely. Then, the subsequent sharp drop in temperatures negatively …

Press release… Türkiye exported 248 million dollars worth of fresh fruit vegetables and fruit and vegetable products to the UK in 2024. Aiming to get a share of 500 million dollars from the UK’s 17.7 billion dollars imports of fresh fruit vegetables and fruit and vegetable products, Turkish fresh fruit …

At the Pre-Harvest Grain Congress organized by the Turkish National Grain Council (UHK) in Mardin, Mesut Çakmak, Chairman of the Turkish Flour Industrialists’ Federation (TUSAF), made important remarks about the industry. He stated that while Türkiye entered last season with high wheat stocks, it is preparing to start the new …

Press release… Türkiye, which ranked second in the world with an olive oil yield of 475 thousand tonnes in the 2024/25 season when olive oil yields peaked worldwide, focused on markets such as the USA, China, Brazil, Japan, Canada and Australia in order to turn the historical yield into added …

The introduction of drone technology has the potential to revolutionize the sugarcane sector in Pakistan by reducing costs, increasing productivity, and promoting environmental safety, said agricultural scientists and sugarcane experts Dr. Asif Tanveer and Dr. Shahid Afghan while talking to APP. They  emphasized that urgent adoption of this precision agriculture …

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) will reduce its headcount by 25 percent to 30 percent as funding for the global aid agency plummets, according to an internal email seen Monday by Agence France-Presse (AFP). U.S. President Donald Trump has moved to slash the nation’s contributions to the U.N. and its …

Izmir, Türkiye’s leading province in milk production, aims to boost its milk production to 2 million tonnes in 2027 with its disease-free and European Union (EU) approved enterprises. In Türkiye, where approximately 22 million tonnes of milk is produced annually, İzmir ranks first with its production of around 1 million …

Press release… An important panel on ‘City and Agriculture’ was organised by TARPOL, the leading think tank of the agriculture sector, at Ulucanlar Semi-Open Prison Culture and Art Centre hosted by Altındağ Municipality of Ankara on Saturday, 26 April 2025. İbrahim Yumaklı The opening speeches of the panel were delivered …