Livestock

Nearly all products made of milk increased in Turkey last year, although drinking milk output decreased, according to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) on Feb. 14.  The amount of collected cow’s milk in 2021 rose by 2.1 percent on an annual basis to more than 10 million tons, TÜİK said.Drinking milk production decreased …

Country sees hen egg production of 19.3B units last year… ANKARA… Turkiye’s chicken meat production rose to 2.2 million tonnes in 2021, according to the country’s statistical authority on Monday. The figure posted a 5.1% year-on-year increase last year, TurkStat said in a statement. The country saw 51,301 tonnes of …

The American agricultural industry posted its highest annual export levels ever recorded in 2021, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced. The final 2021 trade data published by the Department of Commerce shows that exports of U.S. farm and food products to the world totaled $177 billion, topping the 2020 total …

Press release… Exports from the provinces of the Eastern Black Sea Region (Trabzon, Artvin, Rize and Gümüşhane) which is under the jurisdiction of our General Secretariat of Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB), amounted to 106 million 783 thousand 758 dollars in January 2022. Exports from our Region in January …

While wool, hair and mohair production increased in Turkiye last year, honey and silkworm cocoon production decreased, data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) showed yesterday. Compared to the previous year, wool production amount increased by 7.7 percent to 85,916 tons, hair production amount increased by 4.7 percent to 6,700 tons …

On January 27, 2022, the Turkish government published a new regulation delegating specific authorityfor the decision to implement export bans on a list of agricultural commodities during 2022 to theMinistry of Agriculture and Forestry (MinAF). Although MinAF has not yet instituted any export bansfor these 20 products, this authorization allows …

Container problem caused a decrease in Turkiye’s fish meal and oil exports… Exports of fish meal and oil from Turkiye in 2021 decreased by 65 percent in quantity and 58 percent in value, compared to the previous year, due to the shortage of containers faced by exporters as a global …

News release… Aegean Exporters’ Association (EİB) Coordinator Jak Eskinazi said that Turkiye exported 23 billion dollars worth of agricultural products in 2021, while EİB made an export of 5 billion 100 million dollars. Eskinazi reminded that EİB is the export leader of agricultural products by realizing 22 percent of Turkiye’s …

News release… Vegetable oils and dairy products push FAO Food Price Index higher… 03/02/2022 Rome – The gauge for world food prices went up in January, largely catalysed by supply-side constraints for vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 135.7 …