Livestock

Press release… Reminding that 2 years have passed since they took office in the Aegean Aquaculture and Animal Products Exporters’ Association, Bedri Girit underlined that they aimed to ramp up exports with the projects they carried out in the two-year period. Bedri Girit Bedri Girit, Chair of the Aegean Fisheries …

Press release… AKİB MADE AN EXPORT OF 1.3 BILLION DOLLARS WITH A HIKE OF 12 PERCENT IN APRIL… R. Onur Kılıçer, Coordinator President of Mediterranean Exporters’ Associations (AKİB), announced that they exported 1 billion 308 million dollars in April. Onur Kılıçer Kılıçer stated that despite the long holiday in April, …

Press release… ELÜSMarket, (ELÜS – Electronic Warehouse Receipt – EWR) a product market intermediary institution incorporated company, has been officially established with a capital of 21 million 450 thousand Turkish liras. The company is a partnership between 21 Commodity Exchange and İş Yatırım Menkul Değerler A.Ş. The establishment ceremony took …

New criteria are planned to be introduced to prevent counterfeiting and adulteration in butter. According to the draft, the milk fat ratio of butter without added salt will be at least 82 percent. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry prepared the ‘Turkish Food Codex Draft Communiqué on Butter and Clarified …

Competing with Norwegian producers in Europe, the Turkish aquaculture sector has accelerated its efforts to ramp up its exports to over 2 billion dollars this year. The sector, which wants to overcome the price pressure in Russia and Japan with alternative markets, is preparing to enter the world giant China. …

World food prices rose for a second consecutive month in April as higher meat prices and small increases in vegetable oils and cereals outweighed declines in sugar and dairy products, the United Nations’ food agency said on Friday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) price index, which tracks the most …

Türkiye’s Trade Ministry announced Tuesday it would introduce limitations to exports of chicken meat starting from May 1 to Dec. 31, 2024, in a bid to protect domestic consumers amid inflationary pressures and disruption observed in pricing behaviours. The ministry said the export curbs would include whole poultry and parts …

Press release… Speaking about white meat, which has recently come to the agenda with price hikes, Bedri Girit, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Association, pointed out that the price hike of white meat producers was 50.2 percent in 2023 and that …

Mustafa Altuğ Atalay, General Director of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, said that Turkish salmon production has increased in the Black Sea and as of 2023, around 66 thousand tonnes of Turkish salmon were raised. Mustafa Altuğ Atalay Mustafa Altuğ Atalay, General Director of Fisheries …

Osman Yardımcı, President of the Türkiye Butchers Federation, regarding the news that an export ban will be imposed to balance white meat prices, said, “They do not give cheap white meat in Türkiye. They made the right decision.” Osman Yardımcı Following the news that the Ministry of Trade will impose …