Grains and Pulses

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Vahit Kirişci said that being a self-sufficient country in agriculture is of great importance at the point reached today. Stressing that they see the need for seeds to be met domestically as a necessity in order to become a self-sufficient country, Kirişci stated that 911 …

Four more ships left Ukrainian ports under the July 22 Istanbul grain export deal, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Sunday. Two ships departed from the Ukrainian port of Chernomorsk, while the others from Odessa and Yuzhny ports, the ministry said on Twitter. It added that a ship coming from …

Harvest season has started in Turkiye’s northeastern province of Gümüşhane, which has the country’s first gluten-free flour source, buckwheat processing factory. This year’s harvest put a smile on the face of the farmers, as the harvest started with a combine harvester in the area of ​​approximately one thousand decares planted …

Russia has harvested 78 million tonnes of grain crops this season so far, thus ensuring national food security, Roman Nekrasov, director of the department of plant growing, mechanization, chemicalization, and plant protection at the Russian agriculture ministry, said on last Saturday. “As of yesterday, Russian farmers harvested 78 million tonnes …

Grains such as wheat, barley and oats in Turkiye’s eastern Anatolian province of Erzurum surged by one hundred percent compared to the previous year. It is expected that around 300 thousand tonnes of wheat will be harvested in Erzurum. Erzurum Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry Osman Akar stated that …

Türkiye’s cereals exports increased by 31.4 percent in the January-July period from a year ago to stand at 6.26 billion dollars, according to Istanbul Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association (İHBİR). In July alone, exports grew by 22.4 percent on an annual basis to 181.5 million dollars. The …

The first vessel carrying grain for the people in Africa from Ukraine as part of a recently signed deal mediated by Türkiye and the United Nations to prevent a global food crisis docked in Ukraine on Friday, the United Nations said. The MV Brave Commander, which left Istanbul on Wednesday, arrived in …

Cereal sector in Turkiye grew in the first half of the year with an export focus. With the products sent from the country to Iraq, the USA and Israel, amounted to a total of approximately 5.5 billion dollars. In the first half of this year, the cereal industry realized an …

Press release… Mediterranean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters’ Association (AHBİB), aiming to find solutions to the problems of the Turkish grains, pulses, oilseeds and products industry with a common mind, held the second consultation meeting in Mersin, Turkiye’s eastern Mediterranean city. Emphasizing that they are mobilizing for the solution …

An empty merchant vessel left Istanbul for a Ukrainian port to collect grain on Friday following inspections under a Turkish-brokered grain corridor deal between Turkiye, Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations. The Barbados-flagged Fulmar S. headed to Chernomorsk to load grain under the landmark deal signed last month. The ship was …