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Savaş Akcan: Five-year trade volume in ‘rose’, the symbol of Valentine’s day, reached 18 million dollars

Türkiye’s trade volume in roses, the most preferred flower of Valentine’s Day, has reached 18 million dollars in the last 5 years. In the last 5 years, a total of 523 million 26 thousand 808 cut roses were produced on 270 hectares of land in Türkiye. 2020: 93 million 274 …

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Ramazan Özcan: Fifty thousand tonnes of dried apricots exported from Malatya in 6 months

Ramazan Özcan, Chairperson of Malatya Commodity Exchange, announced that they targeted 100 thousand tonnes of exports during the dried apricot export period starting on 1 August 2024. Stating that 50 thousand tonnes of dried apricot exports were made in the first 6 months of the season, Özcan said that they …

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Işınsu Kestelli: Digital transformation in Turkish agriculture is inevitable

Işınsu Kestelli, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Izmir Commodity Exchange (ITB) and Izmir Agriculture Technology Centre (ITTM) Girişim AŞ (Entrepreneurship inc.), stated that digital transformation is of great importance for agriculture in Türkiye to achieve a sustainable and competitive structure. Işınsu Kestelli Kestelli underlined that Turkish agriculture faces …

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Mehmet Ali Işık: Türkiye is also the world’s food warehouse in organic products

Press release… Turkish organic food sector representatives ‘showed up’ in Germany… The Turkish organic sector participated in the Nuremberg Biofach Organic Food Fair, the world’s largest marketplace in the organic sector, with 37 companies and exhibited the potential of the Turkish organic sector in order to get more share from …

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Veysel Memiş: We expect a 25 percent hike in pulses production worldwide in 10 years

Press release… Veysel Memiş, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association (AHBİB), stated that according to the Agricultural Outlook Report of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) …

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Cengiz Balık: Pesticides, the most challenging issue in exports

Press release… Stating that one of the most important problems in fresh fruit and vegetable exports is pesticide residue, Cengiz Balık, Vice Chair of Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters Association, said, “Recently, this issue has started to create a serious agenda. The Turquality Project was launched to improve the …

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Emre Uygun: European Union Project to increase productivity in olive and olive oil sector

Press release… The search for innovation in the olive and olive oil sector… The ‘Innovative and Sustainable Clustering in the Olive Value Chain (OASIS) Project’, supported by the European Union, with Türkiye, Spain and Italy as stakeholders, aims to increase productivity in the olive and olive oil sector through innovative …

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Important initiative for dried fig exporters from Aydın Commodity Exchange!

Press release… Aydın Commodity Exchange Chairman Fevzi Çondur, Assembly Chairman A. Bahri Erdel and Vice Chairman Cengiz Ülgen visited Mustafa Gümüş, General Director of Customs of the Ministry of Trade, in his office in Ankara. During the visit, Fevzi Çondur emphasised that Türkiye is the world leader in dried fig …

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Tobacco production revives in Selendi district of Manisa…

February 2025… Selendi district is once again witnessing an intensive work in tobacco production. While contracted tobacco production was started with the support of private companies, farmers kicked off preparations for the new season. Servet Akyıldız, Head of Selendi Chamber of Agriculture stated that Selendi is the place that grows …

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Türkmen Türkmenoğlu: 37 percent of fruit and vegetable products exports were made from the Aegean region

Press release… The fresh fruit and vegetable and fruit and vegetable products sectors, which deliver Türkiye’s flavours to all four corners of the world, hiked their exports by 4 percent in 2024 to 6 billion 131 million dollars. The 6 billion dollar threshold in the fruit and vegetable and fruit …

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