Press release… Sinan Kızıltan, Chairman of the Turkish Fisheries and Animal Products Sector Board, said that Singapore market, one of the most important reexport centres of the world, reaching a population of approximately 500 million, among the founding countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), one of the …
Read More »Türkiye aims to be China’s food warehouse!
Press release… Turkish exporters, who want to get more share from China’s annual imports of 2.6 trillion dollars, to balance foreign trade between Türkiye and China and to become China’s food warehouse, rolled up their sleeves to intensify their contacts with China in 2024. From left: Ferhat Gürüz, Cao Derong, …
Read More »Saffet Kalyoncu: Eastern Black Sea region exports ended the year with a decline
Press release… Saffet Kalyoncu, Chairman of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB), announced that in the Eastern Black Sea Region, which is under the jurisdiction of DKİB General Secretariat, exports from Trabzon, Rize, Artvin and Gümüşhane provinces amounted to 1 billion 375 million 192 thousand 844 dollars in 2023 …
Read More »Yalova Chestnut Honey receives geographical indication…
As a result of the application made by Yalova Beekeepers’ Association, Yalova chestnut honey became the 28th type of honey to receive a geographical indication in Türkiye. Information was given about the features and production conditions of Yalova chestnut honey. Yalova (a north western province of Türkiye) chestnut honey, which …
Read More »Sinan Kızıltan: Turkish fisheries and animal products sector will focus on US market
Press release… Turkish fisheries and animal products sector aims to export 500 million dollars in the US market… Turkish fisheries and animal products sector wants to grow in the New World market… Sinan Kızıltan The Turkish Fisheries and Animal Products Sector, which works with all its strength to meet the …
Read More »Yumaklı: Animal imports will only be carried out by the state!
Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı has said that from now on, animal imports that disrupt market balances will only be carried out by the state. “There will be no private sector. The ESK [Meat and Milk Board] and the unions will give us their demands. We will select and bring …
Read More »Turkish fishery and animal product exporters participated in the Winter Fancy Food Show…
Press release… Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Association, which alone carries out 43 percent of Türkiye’s exports in the fisheries and animal products sector, participated in the Winter Fancy Food Show Fair held in Las Vegas between 21-23 January 2024 and promoted Turkish aquatic products which prepared the ground …
Read More »A new roadmap to be prepared for Turkish livestock!
A roadmap for livestock farming in Türkiye that will be implemented until 2028 has been prepared and will soon be made public, Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı has said. İbrahim Yumaklı “We are preparing this roadmap, which will protect our producers and our consumers, with the input of the sector,” Yumaklı said on …
Read More »Tevfik Keskin: Milk producers bear brunt of low prices, this is not sustainable!
The National Milk Council (USK – NMC) determined the raw milk recommendation price to be 13.5 liras for the producer. Milk producers reacted to the decision. Tevfik Keskin Tevfik Keskin, President of the Central Union of Türkiye Milk Producers, said, “The raw milk price was already 12.5 liras. Only 1 …
Read More »Milk production was up in January-November 2023…
Türkiye’s chicken meat production was down 3.9 percent to 2.13 million tonnes in January-November 2023 from a year ago, while milk output soared 4.3 percent in the same period, the data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) have shown. The number of chickens slaughtered declined by 6.2 percent to 1.16 billion in the first 11 months …
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