Farming

Press release… The total exports of the cereals, pulses, oil seeds and products sector, which includes basic food products such as biscuits, wheat flour, vegetable oils, sugary and cocoa products and pasta, surged by 6.9 percent to 5.9 billion dollars at the end of 6 months of the year. In …

Turkish flour industry aims to export 4 million metric tonnes for 1.5 billion dollars in revenues by year’s-end, says IOAM Eurasia director… Günhan Ulusoy ISTANBUL… Turkish flour exports in the first half of the year totaled 1.8 million tonnes, generating 680 million dollars in revenue, said an industry group on …

Press release… Saffet Kalyoncu, Chairman of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB), in his written statement, reported that in the first half of the year covering the January-June period of 2024 from Trabzon, Rize, Artvin and Gümüşhane provinces, the region’s exports amounted to 793 million 472 thousand 839 dollars. …

Press release… Dr. Kenan Yalvaç, Secretary General of the Turkish Seed Industry Association (TÜRKTED), announced that The 2025 World Seed Congress of the International Seed Federation (ISF) will be held in Istanbul on 19-21 May 2025 in cooperation with the sector representatives Sub Union of Seed Industrialists and Producers (TSÜAB) …

Press release… Nurettin Tarakçıoğlu, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Furniture, Paper and Forestry Products Exporters’ Association, said that the Turkish spice sector exported 186 million dollars worth of spices in 2023 with an increase of 10 percent. Nurettin Tarakçıoğlu Pointing out that the Aegean Region, …

In Mediterranean province of Mersin’s Mut district, 200 thousand tonnes of apricots were produced this year and 100 thousand tonnes were exported. Apricots were sent to Romania, Russia, Ukraine, India, Middle East and European countries. It was reported that 200 thousand tonnes of apricots were produced this year in Mut …

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı announced that according to the data of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Bank, with an agricultural output of 68.5 billion dollars in 2023, Türkiye ranked 1st in Europe and among the top 10 countries in the world. In a …

Press release… The cereals, pulses, oilseeds and products sector, which exported 680 million dollars to the USA in 2023 and the Turkish fisheries and animal products sector, which ramped up its exports to the USA to 123 million dollars, prepared the ground for new commercial connections at the New York …

Press release… Aegean agricultural exporters, which are the champions of Türkiye by realising 20 percent of the country’s agricultural products exports alone, have intensified their cooperation steps with the European Union. “The European Union is a vital export market for us” Muhammet Öztürkl Muhammet Öztürk, Chairperson of the Aegean Cereals, …

The EU’s Farm to Fork strategy, the agri-food branch of the European Green Deal, aims for 25% of farmland to be organic by 2030… Land used for organic agricultural production accounted for 10.5% of the EU’s total farmland in 2022, according to data released by Eurostat on 19 June. The Eurostat report …