Agricultural Economy

Denmark’s Ambassador to Ankara Danny Annan, in a webinar, said that they are ready to cooperate with Turkey regarding their experience on food sustainability. A call has been made to Turkey to cooperate in the fight against food waste while wastage discussions flaring up along with the pandemic process. Denmark’s …

Press release… Year-end target for tomato product group is 650 million dollars whilefresh tomato exports exceed 250 million dollars. Tomato product group exports, in January-October 2020 period, reached 496 million dollars. The prominent countries in fresh tomato market, which surpassed 252 million dollars, were Romania and Ukraine which have experienced …

Food inflation was 16 percent while fruit and vegetable prices increased by 20 percent in October… According to October inflation data announced by TURKSTAT, the annual food inflation was 16.51 percent. While there was a raise of 7.54 percent on a monthly basis in fresh fruit and vegetables, this rate …

While the olive harvest and olive oil production continues rapidly in the Edremit Bay of Balıkesir province, Dr. Mücahit Kıvrak, Balıkesir University Edremit Vocational High School lecturer, said, “There is no olive oil for 85 liras in a 5 kg-tin can.” Indicating that the adulteration (counterfeiting) incidents put the sector …

Chips from chickpeas were produced in Mersin province to increase the consumption of pulses among children. Chips from chickpeas were produced in Mersin to popularize the consumption and endearment of pulses with high protein value. Abdullah Özdemir, Chairman of Turkish National Pulses Council (UBK), said, “We cooperated with Mersin University …

In the 9 months of the year, 552 million 806 thousand dollars worth of hazelnuts were exported from Trabzon province. According to Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB) data, in the January-September period, 208 thousand 817 tonnes of hazelnuts were exported from Turkey, 1 billion 448 million 555 thousand dollars …

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli stated that they work in a regulatory manner in all of the very important products and that both support and intervention purchases are made. Pakdemirli said, “So we follow up to 50 products very closely. If the prices increase in the period when …

Kemal Kaçmaz, Chairman of the National Citrus Council, said that Turkish citrus has attracted great interest across the world market in recent years. Stating that there are positive developments in citrus exports, Kaçmaz said: “Turkish citrus has shown how ambitious it is with its taste and hygienic production. This development …

Amid ever-rising concerns over climate change and environmental degradation, the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM) have sought to raise awareness on the European Green Deal, the body said on Thursday. İsmail Gülle Under the leadership of the TIM climate committee, several virtual meetings have been held aiming to inform exporters on …

Press relase… While Turkey’s exports of fisheries products in January – October period, reaching 159 thousand tonnes in return of 822 million dollars, Turkish salmon exports caught 40 million dollars in 10-month period of 2020 with the increase of 52 percent. Turkish aquaculture industry has developed the Omega-3 high Turkish …