Agricultural Economy

Food supply security is an integral part of not only agricultural policies, but also public health, economic stability and national security. The world’s growing population, the intensifying effects of climate change, wars and trade barriers are making access to food increasingly fragile. Even in a country with high agricultural potential …

Press release… A new era has dawned for Türkiye’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports. The Sector Council of the Turkish Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Associations, the sector’s umbrella organisation, held its first meeting in Mersin, hosted by the coordinating body, the Mediterranean Exporters’ Associations (AKİB), to chart a course …

Press release… Conflict, displacement and restricted humanitarian access leave more than 825,000 children at risk of death from severe malnutrition in 2026 15/05/2026 Joint FAO/UNICEF/WFP News Release… Rome/New York/Port Sudan – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned today that nearly 19.5 million people …

Press release… Şemsettin Özgür, Vice Chairman of the Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters Association, was unanimously elected as the Chairman of the Turkish Dried Fruit and Products Exporters Associations Sector Board. The Turkish Dried Fruit Sector Board held its first meeting at the Aegean Exporters Associations (EIB). Left to …

Press release… Findings underscore need for discussion on global standards as demand for environmentally friendly packaging rises… 13/05/2026 Rome – The growing use of recycled plastic in food packaging and other food contact materials offers clear environmental benefits but also raises crucial chemical safety concerns that underscore the need for discussion …

Press release… According to data shared by the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TİM), the cereals, pulses, oilseeds and processed products sector, encompassing basic food items such as sunflower oil, chocolate and cocoa products, pasta, biscuits and wafers, confectionery and wheat flour, exported 3.9 billion dollars worth of goods in the first …

Bread is a food prepared by kneading a dough made from wheat flour, potable water, salt, yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and if necessary, additives permitted by the “Turkish Food Codex Regulation,” as well as sugar, enzymes and wheat gluten, according to appropriate techniques. It is then shaped in various ways, left …

Press release… The continued restrictions on poultry meat exports have sounded alarm bells in a sector experiencing record production growth. Ali Can Yamanyılmaz, Vice Chair of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TİM) Sectors Council and the Mediterranean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Association (ASHİB), stated that keeping export channels closed could …

Agricultural production that declined last year due to frost and drought will recover this year, according to Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı. “I can even say that we may break records in some products,” he said. Yumaklı noted that, according to data from the past seven months, this has been the …

Press release… Veysel Memiş, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Association of Exporters of Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Their Products (AHBİB), announced that they had achieved exports worth 409.2 million dollars in the first quarter of the year. New stars in exports: Ukraine, Djibouti and South Korea… …