Statistical Facts

Press release… Ferhat Gürüz, Chairman of the Board of the Mediterranean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, announced that Turkey’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports amounted to 309.9 million dollars in February, marked by earthquake disasters. Ferhat Gürüz Ferhat Gürüz, who stated that there was a 22 percent hike in …

Press release… The Eastern Black Sea Region, which is under the jurisdiction of our General Secretariat, encircling Trabzon, Rize, Artvin and Gümüşhane provinces, made an export of 258 million 628 thousand 263 dollars in January-February 2023. In the first 2 months of 2023, the most exported sectors from the region; …

Rainfall in the Konya plain decreased by 55 percent compared to last year! In the driest season of the last 53 years, Konya Plain expects rainfall for harvest! While Türkiye recorded the second hottest and driest month of the last 53 years as January of 2023, the precipitation in Konya …

Press release… The target of Turkey’s food export to Japan is 500 million dollars. Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) will be holding the Turkish National Participation Organization for the 25th time on March 7-10, 2023 of the Foodex Fair in Japan, which meets the majority of its food needs through imports …

Press release… The ban on the export of fresh tomatoes has been lifted… The export ban on fresh tomato exports on 3 March 2023 was lifted after 3 days upon a justified objection from the sector. The tomato and tomato-derived products sector, the export champion of the fresh fruit, vegetable …

The global food system’s greenhouse gas emissions will add nearly 1 degree Celsius to Earth’s surface temperatures by 2100 on current trends, obliterating Paris Agreement climate goals, scientists have warned. A major overhaul of the sector, from production to distribution to consumption, could reduce those emissions by more than half even as global population …

Monthly decline reflects lower prices of vegetable oils, dairy products, says UN agency… Global food prices fell 0.6% in February, the 11th consecutive monthly decline, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 129.8 points in February, decreasing from 130.6 points in …

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. …