Food

Ankara… Food banking will be one of the most effective weapons in preventing food waste in Turkey, the country’s forestry and agriculture minister said on Tuesday. “It is our duty to identify deficiencies and improve the food banking system. The responsibility of the municipalities is to encourage the use of …

News release… As part of the SAVE YOUR FOOD campaign, the workshop will present recommendations to policy-makers to encourage and facilitate food recovery and redistribution. 20 April 2021, Ankara, Turkey– A workshop held today is promoting food-banking activities and supporting the work of existing food banks operated by municipalities to reduce food …

Sheep and Goat Breeders’ Association of Turkey (TÜDKİYEB) Chairperson Nihat Çelik said that he asked for the disclosure of profiteers who increase food prices because of the Ramadan and to be given the most severe punishment to these people. In his written statement, Çelik pointed out that despite the measures …

BESD-BİR announced that there were negative news about the price hikes regarding white meat products at certain times of the year and asked that the evaluations on the price of chicken meat be made on the whole chicken. The Association of Poultry Meat Producers and Breeders (BESD-BİR) made a statement …

Türkşeker (Turkish Sugar Factories), authorized to export 60 percent of the “C sugar” produced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s Sugar Department, has exported 80 thousand tonnes of sugar and earned approximately 30 million dollars. According to the statement made by Türkşeker who applied its “contract farming” experience in …

Making a statement on food waste, İstanbul Commodity Exchange (İSTİB) Vice Chairman Hakkı İsmet Aral said that they aim to prevent 3 billion dollars of food waste in two years. It began to speed up works against food wastage in Turkey. Stating that Istanbul Commodity Exchange started its studies on …

Turkey obtained 40 million dollars from tomato paste exported to 90 countries in the first quarter of this year. According to the data compiled from Aegean Exporters’ Association (EİB), Turkey sold tomato paste to 90 countries in January-February-March 2021 period. Foreign sales of tomato paste in the 3-month period of …

Press release… Union of Turkish Agricultural Chambers (TZOB), since 2007, has been working through so as not be allowed to pre-Ramadan opportunism. During this Ramadan, we will continue to inform the public by following the producer and market prices. It is important to meet the food needs of our citizens …

The pasta industry is having a hard time due to the export restriction, which was introduced on December 17, 2020 and will last until April 30, in order to prevent the increase in inflation. In the first three months of the year after the restriction, 275 thousand tonnes of pasta …

Press release… Vegetable oils drive FAO Food Price Index higher in March while cereal quotations dip… 8 April 2021, Rome – Global food commodity prices rose in March, marking their tenth consecutive monthly increase, with quotations for vegetable oils and dairy products leading the rise, the Food and Agriculture Organization of …