Livestock

2022 target for export of dairy products to China is 180 million dollars… Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Association Chairperson Bedri Girit said that they foresee exports to China as 80 million dollars at the end of this year and we want to increase this to 180 million dollars …

Press release… The export of Rainbow Trout, a subspecies of the trout species grown in the Black Sea, which is known as Black Sea Salmon in the domestic market and known as Turkish Salmon in foreign markets, increased every month and exceeded the 100 million dollars limit. Turkish salmon In …

Honey production, which fell 50 percent this year due to drought, decreased by 70 percent in total due to forest fires. Ziya Şahin, Head of the Turkish Beekeepers’ Association (TAB), said that this was reflected in the consumer as a 60 percent hike. It is feared that the reduced production …

Expanding its poultry product range in the Chinese market, entered with chicken feet, the company, established in Uşak province, started exporting to island countries such as the Philippines, Seychelles and Maldives too with the experience it gained there. Osman Gedik, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, said, …

A first in Istanbul! Chestnut honey has received geographical indication registration… Ahmet Can The formation, which was established by the chestnut honey producers in Şile district of İstanbul, under the name Şile Agricultural Development Cooperative, applied to the Turkish Patent Institute and registered chestnut honey as the first geographically indicated …

Thousands of liters of milk goes down the drain as some British dairy farmers face rising costs, labor shortages and an acute deficit of truck drivers which has strained supply chains to breaking point, farmers said. A post-Brexit shortage of workers exacerbated by the global strains of the COVID-19 crisis …

Fishermen have caught a swordfish in Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait after approximately half a century since it was last seen in Turkish waters. “It is good news to learn that an endangered species is seen in Istanbul Strait,” Nuray Erkan, a professor from Istanbul University’s Hydrology Faculty, told the daily Milliyet on Oct. …

Salmon exports increased by 264 percent… Turkey’s salmon exports increased by 264 percent in the January-September period compared to the same period of the previous year, reaching 109 million dollars. According to the data compiled from the Aegean Exporters’ Associations, Turkey’s aquaculture exports in the January-September period of 2020 were …

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry provides both water saving and productivity increase with its “agriculture by water” practices within the scope of combating drought and climate change. While the cultivation of plants with less water consumption is expanded, especially in places with water scarcity, support is given for them. …