Statistical Facts

Only a bold and ambitious U.N. treaty with sweeping reforms of the entire plastic life cycle can stem the world’s waste crisis, experts said yesterday. Even if measures thought to have the greatest potential for reducing plastic consumption are implemented, they would still fail to prevent a substantial rise in plastics production and use, …

Press release… The vegetable oil sector accounted for 58 dollars of every 100 dollars exported from the Aegean… Muhammet Öztürk, who announced the 2022 export scorecard of the Aegean Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association (EHBYİB) on the basis of sectors, said in his written statement, “Our vegetable …

Press release… Believing that one of the most important pillars of sustainability for a green and livable world is to increase organic production and exports, the Turkish organic sector presented Turkish organic foods to the world at the BioFach Organic Products Fair, the biggest meeting of the world organic sector. …

Press release… Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) data reveals that the low exchange rate-low interest policy supports imports more than exports! While Türkiye had a foreign trade deficit of 46 billion dollars in 2021, it jumped to 110 billion dollars in 2022. Jak Eskinazi Commenting on Türkiye’s foreign trade data, Aegean …

Press release… While Türkiye exported 25 billion dollars of food products in 2022, the grain, pulses, oilseeds sector was at the peak of food exports with an export of 11.4 billion dollars. The sector alone realized 46 percent of Türkiye’s food exports. Cereals, pulses and oilseeds sector which is the …

In December 2022, chicken egg production increased by 4.3 percent compared to the same month of the previous year and became 1.75 billion units. Chicken egg production increased… Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced the poultry production data for December 2022. Accordingly, chicken meat production was 201,123 tonnes and chicken egg …

The devastating earthquakes that struck Türkiye last week could result in a loss of up to 1% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) this year, said the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on Thursday. In its latest report, the ERBD said this is a “reasonable estimate” due to the …

Restrictions come into effect Wednesday and are valid until June 30… MOSCOW… Under a decree passed last December, effective Wednesday, Russia has limited its grain exports to foreign countries to the amount of 25.5 million tons. The restrictions will be valid until June 30, and do not apply to grain …

The area under organic farming in the European Union (EU) has increased by 41% within five years reaching 14.8 million hectares in 2020, according to a report published by the European Commission.EU agricultural land farmed organically grew by more than 50% in the 2012-2020 period, with an annual increase of …

Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) Bulletin #1, 10 February 2023… International prices of wheat fell again in January, as the short-term outlook for global supplies continued to improve, in particular following latest estimates of larger 2022 outputs in Australia and the Russian Federation than earlier expected. By contrast, international …