Farming

Türkiye exported tea to 116 countries in 9 months… Türkiye exported 3,642 tonnes of tea to 116 countries in the first 9 months of 2023, generating 18 million 23 thousand 919 dollars in revenue. While 45 percent of the exports were carried out from Black Sea’s province of Rize. Belgium, …

Harsh weather affecting major global exporters is reducing wheat output and cutting inventories that have already been projected to hit nine-year lows while fuelling a sudden uptick in prices. Dryness afflicting suppliers from Russia, the world’s biggest, to Argentina, is making food production vulnerable as recent Russian attacks on grain ships …

The Trade Ministry announced on Thursday a change to the regulation for maize imports that would be implemented until the end of the year to ensure the supply-demand balance amid adverse climate conditions and regional and global developments, which it said affected the 2024 crop. “A significant decrease is expected …

Press release… The distant markets strategy put forward by the Ministry of Trade in recent years to diversify Türkiye’s export markets has been successfully implemented in dried fig exports. Mehmet Ali Işık, President of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that the share of the American continent …

Wageningen Plant Research announced a collaboration with the Korean company DDS Bio to advance agricultural practices in South Korea through innovations in digital breeding and digital farming. This collaboration, under the project title “Fostering Climate Resilient Future with Digital Breeding and Digital Farming Innovations for Agriculture in South Korea” (FOSTER …

Press release… Veysel Memiş, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association (AHBİB), announced that they exported 172.8 million dollars in September. Emphasising that the record-level increases they achieved in distant markets in the 9th month of the year were reflected …

Press release… 12 percent increase in dried fig exports.. Dried fig exports closed the season with 292 million dollars… Export price of dried figs soared by 29 percent in foreign currency… The fruit of paradise, dried figs, left the 2023/24 season behind with an export amount of 292 million dollars …

Kars… In the Türkiye’s northeastern province of Kars, ‘gruyere cheese’ produced from the milk of cows fed in high altitude plateaus was registered with a geographical sign. Kadir Bozan The producers, who pass the milk collected in the dairy in the province through certain stages, then boil the milk into …

Press release… Söke cotton, which crossed the borders from the Aegean Region, the land of fertile lands, made history as the first cotton product to be registered in the European Union. Türkiye celebrates the success of Söke cotton on 7 October World Cotton Day. Jak Eskinazi World Cotton Day will …

Press release… United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) raised its global cereal production forecast for 2024 slightly to 2 billion 853 million tonnes, as upward revisions to rice and wheat production outweighed a slight decline in global coarse grain production. The new figure, which is also included in the …