Co-ops, Unions and Assoc.

News release… Aegean Exporters’ Association (EİB) Coordinator Jak Eskinazi said that Turkiye exported 23 billion dollars worth of agricultural products in 2021, while EİB made an export of 5 billion 100 million dollars. Eskinazi reminded that EİB is the export leader of agricultural products by realizing 22 percent of Turkiye’s …

News release… While Turkey exported 5 billion 111 million dollars of fresh fruit, vegetables and products in 2021, the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Exporters’ Association contributed 23 percent to Turkey’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports with a performance of 1 billion 182 million dollars. While pepper and gherkin pickles …

As the main deadline for the 2030 targets of the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy approaches, the food chain actors push for solution-oriented policies and tools setting a clear path towards an innovative and more sustainable approach for our food systems. Although the strategy’s targets to make the EU’s agri-food …

The target is to exceed 1 billion dollars in foreign sales by 2022… Indicating that the industry is targeting 1 billion dollars in foreign sales this year, Abdülkadir Külahçıoğlu, Chair of Pasta Industrialists Association of Turkiye, said, “We will take firm steps towards the 1 billion dollar export target that …

Today more than 70 leading businesses and financial institutions have called for a legally binding UN treaty on plastic pollution in a pre-UNEA statement.  The statement is an indictment on the severity of our current plastic crisis, which merits immediate and concerted global efforts that tackle the problem at its root …

Press release… Tolga Şallı, Chairperson of the Environmentalist Energy Association, made a written statement about the renewable energy. Şallı said, “Our country, which has many main resources from agriculture to tourism, from industry to energy, needs to use renewable energy resources in the most effective way in the production stages. …

Press release… The fight against pesticides should be seen as a priority area in the circular economy action plan! A call from the fresh fruit and vegetable sector: We must take action in the fight against pesticides With the EU Green Deal, it aims to reduce the use of pesticides …

Some of the top issues occupying the minds of young people have co-operative solutions claims trade body Co-operatives UK in a new YouGov survey released today. Mental health, job security, career prospects, a lack of control over their working lives, climate change and worries about personal data are causing stress …

Adana Farmers’ Union Chairperson Mutlu Doğru stated that it is not possible to understand the logic of the proposal to limit the export of food products in order to prevent the increase in food prices and said, “As we always say, the only way to reduce prices is to decrease …

Antalya Organized Industrial Zone Chairperson Ali Bahar stated that Türkşeker (Turkiye Sugar Factories Inc.) which could not meet the demand of the food industry because of delivering sugar it produced to the markets, indicated the address to the privatized sugar factories. Ali Bahar said, “Sugar is 70 percent more expensive …