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What is the Development of International Competitiveness Project (UR-GE Project) ? The Ministry of Trade implemented the “Communiqué on Supporting the Development of International Competitiveness” on 23 September 2010 in order to boost the competencies and competitiveness of companies by clustering. The Ministry of Trade supports 75 per cent of …

Emphasising that the global food sector started 2024 hopeful despite various risks brought about by recession expectations, regional wars, climate crisis and cost increases, Ahmet Tiryakioğlu, Chairman of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM) Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Sector Board, evaluated the developments as follows: Ahmet Tiryakioğlu “Although agricultural …

Press release… Jak Eskinazi, Coordinator President of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB), described the exports of 42.6 billion dollars from the Aegean Region as a great success in 2023, when the recession in the world economies and the high inflation and low exchange rate spiral in the Turkish economy. Eskinazi …

Press release… Haluk Tezcan, Vice Chair of Aegean Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association, announced that Türkiye is the world leader in flour exports. Haluk Tezcan “Indeed, this leadership is a leadership that suits us. We touch 8 billion people in some way. Last year, Ukraine-Russia grain corridor …

Press release… In Türkiye, the cat and dog food sector grew 27 times in exports in a 10-year period and reached 122 million dollars in 2023. The sector aims to export 150 million dollars at the end of 2024. Muhammet Öztürk Muhammet Öztürk, Chairman of the Board of Directors of …

In January 2024, Türkiye exported 1.1 million tonnes of basic food products, mainly biscuit-pasta, wheat flour, vegetable oils, sugary and cocoa products and pasta, generating 1.03 billion dollars in revenue. The sector, which ramped up its export revenues by 5.4 percent in January compared to the same period last year, …

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık The Turkish dried fruit sector came together at the “Dried Fruit Workshop” in Izmir with the intensive participation of more than 120 participants from the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Trade, Chambers and Commodity Exchanges, Research Institutes, Provincial Directorates of Agriculture and Forestry in order …

Antalya Commodity Exchange (ATB) and Antalya Agriculture Council (ATAK) President Ali Çandır evaluated Antalya’s January export figures. Stating that Türkiye’s Mediterranean’s leading province of Antalya’s exports in January 2024 soared by 16.2 percent to 185 million dollars compared to the same month last year, Çandır also noted that agricultural exports …

Press release… Turkish organic sector’s new export target is 2 billion dollars… Türkiye, which produces 1.6 million tonnes of organic products in 268 different products, mainly dry, fresh and frozen fruits and cotton, has exceeded 1 billion dollars in foreign currency income from the export of these products. Exporters, anticipating …

Press release… Ercan Korkmaz, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Izmir Commodity Exchange, in his written statement, said that in the last 10 years, the amount of pulses production and consumption in our country has increased. Ercan Korkmaz “Consumption, which was 1.12 million tonnes in 2012, soared by …