Livestock

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Press release… Girit: We started exporting eggs to Russia for the first time, we opened fresh chicken exports to Iran Bedri Girit Bedri Girit, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Aquaculture and Animal Products Exporters’ Association, said: “We are in the top 10 in the world in …

Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı has denied allegations that the ministry has authorized artificial meat. İbrahim Yumaklı “Artificial meat has never been on the agenda of our ministry and never will be. There is no talk of allowing the production of artificial meat. There will not be any legislative work on this issue,” …

Press release… What happened in agriculture in 2023, what does the sector expect from 2024? In the evaluation of 2023 in the agricultural sector, it was underlined that there was a spike in crop production last year due to good weather conditions and that farmers who continued their production despite …

Türkiye provided some TL 4.7 billion (157.8 million dollars) in grant support to rural development projects last year, a senior official said Wednesday. Highlighting that they made last year “the year of rural investments,” Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumaklı said, “Last year, we provided TL 4.7 billion in grant …

Press release… Aegean exporters, who brought Türkiye 42.6 billion dollars in foreign currency in 2023, described 2024 as “A Year of Hope”. Speaking at the “2023 export performance evaluation and 2024 predictions meeting”, Jak Eskinazi Coordinator Chair of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB), said: “In 2024, our goal will be …

Press release… Benchmark measure of world food commodity prices ends 2023 about 10 percent below its year-earlier level… 05/01/2024 Rome– The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined in December compared to the previous month, with the sharpest drop in international sugar quotations, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the …