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 …