Farming

Turkey’s cereals and pulses exports reach 9.2 billion dollars… The cereals, pulses, oilseeds and products sector exported 9 billion 205 million 576 thousand dollars in 9 months of the year. According to the information compiled from the data of the Southeastern Anatolia Exporters’ Associations (GAİB), the Turkish cereals, pulses, oilseeds …

Diyarbakır Commodity Exchange President Engin Yeşil said that cotton, known as ‘white gold’, has lost its charm and that cotton producers will not be able to plant cotton next year in the face of prices. Speaking at the Cotton Buying-Selling Session held at Diyarbakır Commodity Exchange (DTB), Engin Yeşil stated …

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık: We exported 73 thousand 388 tonnes of dried figs The 2022/23 season of dried figs, the fruit of paradise, of which Türkiye is the the world’s leading producer and exporter and also defined as the holy fruit in all heavenly religions, ended with a historic …

Long-awaited EU animal welfare proposals are falling through without an official explanation. Some reports suspect that economic objectives are at play. A raft of highly-anticipated EU animal welfare proposals are overdue, and it seems that the European Commission will fall short on its commitments for the long-promised legislative reforms. Brussels appears to …

An enterprise of the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, which is the breeder of a significant proportion of racehorses, has sold 15 purebred Arabian foals for a total of 22 million Turkish Liras ($798,000) at an auction. The foals, all male and born in 2021, were raised at the Karacabey Agricultural Enterprise under …

 The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 121.5 points in September 2023, almost unchanged from its value in August, as declines in the price indices of vegetable oils, dairy and meat had offset increases in the sugar and cereal price indices. At this level, the index stood 14.6 points (10.7 percent) …

Press release… Saffet Kalyoncu, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Associations (DKİB), said that in the January-September period of 2023, exports from Trabzon, Rize, Artvin and Gümüşhane provinces in the Eastern Black Sea Region amounted to 1 billion 31 million 873 thousand 835 dollars …

Glyphosate use must be curbed, but prohibition may have adverse effect… WUR researchers Violette Geissen and Pieter de Wolf stress that the environmental risks of using chemical pesticides must be reduced as much as possible. However, whether the available alternatives are better for humans, the environment, soil life and the …

Press release… In the first month of the 2023/2024 hazelnut export season, which started on 1 September 2023; hazelnut exports from Türkiye reached 24 thousand 344 tonnes and 151 million 780 thousand dollars of foreign currency inflow was provided in return.Mehmet Cirav, Chairman of the Hazelnut and Hazelnut Products Sector …

Press release… 1.5 billion dollars of exports from Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) in September… September exports of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations were recorded as 1 billion 515 million dollars with an increase of 1 percent. While the members of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations exported 13 billion 688 million dollars in …