Statistical Facts

Drought in Spain and elsewhere in the Mediterranean is stressing supply… Heat and drought in the Mediterranean are harming production of olive oil, causing its price to spike. The global price of the oil is now almost $6,000 per metric ton, according to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). That’s the highest since …

Türkiye’s total red meat production soared by 12.3 percent in 2022 from the previous year to 2.2 million tons, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) has said. Cattle meat production was 1.57 million tons, a 7.7 percent rise from 2021, while the increase in sheep meat production was 27 percent to 489,000 tons. Goat meat production …

Press release… Türkiye aims to export 80 thousand tonnes of cherry… Türkiye, which is the world leader in cherry production with a harvest of 700 thousand tonnes, entered the 2023 season with the target of 80 thousand tonnes of cherry exports and 200 million dollars in foreign currency income. “Cherry …

Press release… “We Should Set the Targets of Dry Grape and Table Grape Growing at the Beginning of the Season” “The day we learn to say NEIN (No) our raisins will pay off” Two-thirds of the 2022/23 season has been left behind in seedless raisins, where Türkiye is the world …

Press release… 05/05/2023 Rome – The benchmark index of international food commodity prices rose in April for the first time in a year, amid increases in world quotations for sugar, meat and rice, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks …

Russia has increased Türkiye’s tomato import quota from a previous 350,000 tons to 500,000 tons, raising hopes among local growers that exports to this country will recover. Moscow’s decision to import more tomatoes from Türkiye came after a recent exchange between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The two had …

Dried apricot exports from Malatya, which was among the several provinces affected by the powerful earthquakes that hit Türkiye’s south in early February, increased by 2 tons in the January-April period from a year ago. Malatya accounts for 85 percent of the apricot production in the world. Some 5,500 tons of dried apricot …

Press release… Veysel Memiş, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters’ Association (AHBİB), said that they succeeded in boosting exports on a value basis with the increase in export unit prices in the January-March period of 2023, despite the difficulties in global …

Press release… Aegean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters’ Association (EHBYİB) has ramped up its exports 4 times in the last 4 years and has managed to exceed the 1 billion dollar threshold. Aegean cereals, pulses, oilseeds exporters set an export target of 1.1 billion dollars in 2023. Speaking at …

Wheat production is estimated to be around 19 million tonnes in 2023, officials said, adding that they do not expect any problems in the local market thanks to the tariffs imposed. The provinces in the Central Anatolia Region receive enough precipitation, so there should be no issues regarding agricultural production, …