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Press release… The 2021 INC 3D Online Conference, held by the International Nut and Dried Fruit Council (INC), on May 25-27, has been completed. The conference brought together more than 1,300 industry professionals in the dried fruit and nut industry from more than 70 countries of the world. More than …

Turkey‘s exports hit $16.5 billion in May 2021, up by 65.5% year-on-year, the country’s trade minister announced last week. “We achieved the second-highest-ever May figure,” Mehmet Muş said in a news conference in the capital Ankara, citing preliminary export figures. Mehmet Muş The 12-month rolling export figures reached $193.3 billion in May, the highest ever yearly …

Fishery production in Turkey posted a 6.1% decline last year on an annual basis, the country’s statistical authority said on June 4.  The fishery production totaled 785,811 tons in 2020, according to TÜİK figures. The total fishery production comprised 37.1% caught sea fish, 5% other sea products, 4.2% inland water products, and 53.6% aquaculture …

Press release… Harvest enthusiasm is experienced in peach, which is accepted as the harbinger of summer and the symbol of long life and immortality. Peach and nectarine exports increased by 71 percent from 90 million dollars to 154 million dollars in 2020, when the pandemic peaked. After a 20-day delay …

Water Policies Association President Dursun Yıldız said that the studies, started at the beginning of 2020, for the establishment of the International Water Bank (IWB) still continue. Yıldız said, “MAI Resources International, the Global Leader in Water Resources Management and Bulk Water Transport, announced that it is the largest supporter …

Press release… “Restoring ecosystems”, that is, preventing, stopping and reversing the damage inflicted on the planet’s ecosystems, trying to move from exploiting nature to healing it.  This is the theme of this year’s World Environment Day, which will be celebratedon June 5. An important date that will kick off the United Nations …

Press release… The fact that cotton exports have been put under registration with the Communiqué of the Ministry of Commerce caused uneasiness especially among the producers and traders. Although this communiqué does not mean that cotton exports will be banned or restricted in its current form, it is met with …

Press release… Super foods with high nutritional value, of which Turkey is the world leader in production and export; seedless raisins, dried apricots and dried figs are approaching 1 billion dollars towards the end of the season. Aegean Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Association Chairperson Birol Celep said that the …

Press release… FAO Food Price Index posts fastest monthly increase to reach highest value since September 2011… 03 June 2021, Rome – Global food prices rose in May at their fastest monthly rate in more than a decade, even as world cereal production is on course to reach a new record …

Country earns 1.6B dollars from hazelnut exports from last September to this May, says regional trade association… Turkey’s hazelnut exports totaled 231,595 tonnes in the first nine months of the export season, a regional trade association announced on Wednesday. The figure was down 21.1 percent from the same period in …