Farming

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı stated that 97 out of every 100 units of seeds used are produced in Türkiye. “We have 1.3 million tonnes of production. Türkiye has now entered the literature as a seed producing country in the world. We export seeds to 117 countries,” Yumaklı …

The Chinese government has authorised the production of the country’s first genetically modified wheat strain. This is the first important step towards the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) food products. Despite rapid advances in areas as diverse as artificial intelligence, telecommunications, renewable energy and electric vehicles, Asia lags far behind …

Press release… “Our primary goal is to remove the export restrictions on bulk and barreled olive oil exports” M. Emre Uygun, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Olive and Olive Oil Exporters’ Association (EZZIB), stated that Türkiye has made great investments in the olive sector in the …

Türkiye’s citrus exports rose 16 percent in January-April when compared to the year earlier to reach 475 million dollars, according to a head of a local exporters association on Sunday, with shipments to one of the top markets, Iraq jumping nearly 400 percent in the same period. Citrus “In 2023, …

Press release. A joint statement by 20 organisations that determine the fate of the olive oil sector in Türkiye! Left to right; Mustafa Tan, Emre Uygun, Fikret Akova, Güngör Şarman The 20 institutions and associations that determine the fate of the Turkish olive and olive oil sector, came together at …

Press release… Dikili Agriculture Based Specialised Organised Industrial Zone (Dikili TDİOSB) which is one of the largest geothermally heated agriculture-based organised industrial zones in Europe and Türkiye, established in cooperation with the Governorship of Izmir, Izmir Chamber of Commerce, Aegean Region Chamber of Industry, Izmir Commodity Exchange, Aegean Exporters’ Associations, …

Press release… Southeastern Anatolia’s exports of cereals, pulses, oil seeds and products sector in the first 4 months of the year was 1.1 billion dollars. Celal Kadooğlu Compared to the same period of the previous year, the country to which the cereal exporters in the region, whose exports soared by …

170 tea factories in Türkiye… In Türkiye, today around 1.5 million tonnes of green tea leaves are harvested annually and processed in 216 different tea processing factories. Mehmet Erdoğan A total of 170 of those factories belong to the private sector, while the remaining 46 are public institutions, according to …

Press release… Mehmet Emre Uygun has become the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Olive and Olive Oil Exporters’ Association (EZZIB), which brings together olive and olive oil exporters in Türkiye under its roof. Uygun will serve as the 27th president in the 84-year history of EZZIB. …

478.8 million dollars of hazelnut exports were made from the Eastern Black Sea in 4 months… Hazelnut exports from the Eastern Black Sea region in January-April 2024 soared by 36 percent compared to the same period last year and reached 478 million 812 thousand 362 dollars. Eastern Black Sea Exporters …