Agricultural Economy

Turkey exports flour to 164 countries around the globe, meaning that 90 percent of the world’s population consumes Turkish flour, a top flour industry official told Anadolu Agency Tuesday. Turkey earns over $1 billion from flour exports annually, said Eren Günhan Ulusoy, director of the International Association of Operative Millers …

Press release… Amid ample food supplies, FAO reveals snarls in distribution during COVID-19 pandemic In Europe and Central Asia, as well as globally, early indications project near-record wheat production and stock levels in 2020. Food supplies for major food commodities are sufficient. Still, logistics disruptions have emerged as a result …

Hayrettin Uçak, Chairman of Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, said that necessary measures were taken for seasonal agricultural workers and that there was no problem. Uçak said, “Prices of newly released products are high. With the costs, packaging, workmanship and commission fee, prices are rising necessarily. In the …

May 7, 2020 Variations in the prices of commodities and the dollar, economic instability, the credit crunch of financial institutions and the lack of predictability of what may happen in the next harvest can generate insecurity in rural producers when planning and prospecting production costs. To circumvent the uncertainties generated …

Press release… President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the wheat purchase price of 2020 products. Grain intervention purchase price was announced before harvest just like last year. Accordingly, the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) will take from the producer red and white hard bread wheat from 1,650 lira per ton, barley from …

Press release… Digital Agriculture Market will encourage everyone to production… Digital Agriculture Market will facilitate farmer’s access to the market… With the Digital Agriculture Market, farmers will easily find a market for their products… Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association Chairman Hayrettin Uçak evaluated the issues of April export …

Press release… FAO expects subdued usage to push up cereal stocks in 2019/20 and FAO’s first forecast for wheat markets in 2020/21 points to continued growth in inventories 07 May 2020, Rome – World food commodity prices declined for the third month in a row during April, as the economic …

Turkey has earned around 1.84 billion dollars (TL 13 billion) from hazelnut exports from September 2019 to April 2020, increasing 50.9 percent versus the same period in the previous season, a regional trade union announced on Monday. The Black Sea Hazelnut and Products Exporters’ Association reported that Turkey’s hazelnut exports …

Press release… A coronavirus warning came from experts for the livestock industry… Emre Pınar Kılıç, a member of the Izmir Chamber of Commerce (İZTO) Agriculture and Livestock Commission and veterinary surgeon Gürhan Karaçaylı, said that the coronavirus could survive in the summer months and that measures should be taken.  “A …

Tea growers in the eastern Black Sea region are desperately looking for workers to harvest tea on their land plants after authorities have introduced curbs on travel and limited entrance to and exit from the cities. Potential tea plantation workers are offered a salary of 6,900 Turkish Liras (around 1000 dollars) …