Statistical Facts

Press release… AHBİB CHAIRMAN VEYSEL MEMİŞ: WE MAINTAINED OUR STRONG POSITION DESPITE THE GLOBAL SLOWDOWN WITH EXPORTS OF 176.6 MILLION DOLLARS IN OCTOBER Veysel Memiş, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters Association (AHBİB), stated that exports from the region reached 176.6 …

Approximately 92 per cent of the world’s pine honey production comes from the red pine forests along Türkiye’s Aegean coast, primarily produced by the Muğla ecotype of the Anatolian bee breed.The sap secreted by the pine woolly aphid (Basra), which lives on red pine trees and feeds on the tree’s …

Press release… Ahmet Tiryakioğlu, Chair of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM) Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Sector Committee, as the sector, they exported 95 million dollars to the US market, where they exported 53.8 million dollars last October, reaching 743 million dollars in this market by the end of the …

Press release… Low Yield, High Quality… Alper Alhat, Chair of the Akhisar Commodity Exchange, announced that the olive harvest to be around 170–180 thousand tonnes. “This year, the yield will be low but the quality will be high. We expect the table olives to be large and the oils to …

Professor Dr. Doğan Yaşar announced that water levels in İzmir have fallen to critical levels and that underground water reserves are being depleted. Water levels in reservoirs are at their lowest point in history, threatening agricultural production. Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) Environment, Biodiversity and Climate Change …

Press release… Chocolate and cocoa-based product exports exceed 1 billion dollars… According to data shared by the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM), the cereals, pulses, oilseeds and products sector, which includes chocolate and cocoa products, sunflower oil, biscuits and wafers, confectionery and staple food items such as pasta and wheat flour, …

Press release… 94 percent of dried tomato exports came from the Aegean Region… Blood-red tomatoes, grown in the fertile lands of Anatolia, were painstakingly sun-dried and exported to 98 countries. Türkiye exported 108 million dollars worth of dried tomatoes in the first 10 months of 2025, ranking second globally behind …

Press release… Funds, quotas and bans led to a 28 percent decline in olive oil exports! Türkiye has endured a challenging season for exports in the olive oil sector. The country exported 70,626 tonnes of golden liquid in the 2023/24 season, but only 50,713 tonnes in the 2024/25 season. Olive …

Press release… Benchmark for globally traded food commodity prices was slightly below year-ago level… 07/11/2025 Rome – World food commodity prices generally declined in October, driven largely by ample global supplies, according to the benchmark measure released Friday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The FAO Food Price Index, …

Press release… Veysel Memiş, Coordinating Chair of the Mediterranean Exporters’ Association (AKİB), announced that they achieved 1.45 billion dollars in exports in October. He noted that they reached their highest figures in the Iraqi, Russian and US markets in the 10th month of the year and that the strongest increases …