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Jak Eskinazi: 2024 will be “A Year of Hope” for exporters and our country

Press release… Aegean exporters, who brought Türkiye 42.6 billion dollars in foreign currency in 2023, described 2024 as “A Year of Hope”. Speaking at the “2023 export performance evaluation and 2024 predictions meeting”, Jak Eskinazi Coordinator Chair of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB), said: “In 2024, our goal will be …

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FAO Food Price Index declines in December…

Press release… Benchmark measure of world food commodity prices ends 2023 about 10 percent below its year-earlier level… 05/01/2024 Rome– The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined in December compared to the previous month, with the sharpest drop in international sugar quotations, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the …

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Yumaklı: National Water Council will play a crucial role

The National Water Council held its inaugural meeting to address the pressing issue of depleting water resources, with Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı underscoring the widespread misconception of water as an unlimited global resource. Yumaklı highlighted the diminishing availability of clean water due to rapid consumption, pollution, industrialization, urbanization, climate change and …

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Nihat Çelik: The only way to minimise the problems in the red meat sector is through ovine breeding

Nihat Çelik, Head of the Türkiye Sheep and Goat Breeders’ Central Union (TÜDKİYEB) said that the only way to minimise the problems in the red meat sector is through ovine breeding. “Increasing the share of ovine, which is 27 per cent in red meat production and encouraging its consumption, increasing …

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Sebahattin Arslantürk: Trabzon accounts for 28 percent of hazelnut exports in 2023

Press release… In 2023, 284 thousand 141 tonnes of hazelnuts were exported from Türkiye and 1 Billion 866 Million 735 Thousand 417 Dollars of foreign currency inflow was provided in return. According to the latest data, issued by Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB), last year, there was a 9 …

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Ahmet Güldal: Türkiye has reached a valuable point in seed production

General Manager of Turkish Grain Board (TMO) Ahmet Güldal, said that the breeding works carried out in seed highly contributed to farmers and production. Ahmet Güldal “The legal regulations and supports provided have been very effective, but the biggest effect is in breeding studies. Then the efforts of our colleagues …

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Tevfik Keskin: Cow slaughter will accelerate if raw milk price is not updated!

Tevfik Keskin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Union of Milk Producers of Türkiye (SÜTBİR), made a written statement regarding the milk prices on the agenda of milk producers. Stating that according to their calculations, the cost of raw milk production is 12.43 liras and the producer …

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Mehmet Akın Doğan: Pesticides are the most important cost item of our farmers

Türkiye’s Eastern Mediterranean province of Adana’s district Yüreğir Chamber of Agriculture President Mehmet Akın Doğan said that the VAT exemption applied in fertiliser and feed should also be applied to agricultural pesticides or the VAT rate should be reduced. Mehmet Akın Doğan THE VAT EXEMPTION APPLIED IN FERTILISER AND FEED …

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Eastern Mediterranean accounts for 50 percent of orange production in Türkiye…

ORANGES PURCHASED FOR 5 TL IN THE GARDEN… In the Eastern Mediterranean region, where Türkiye’s major production centres are located, the orange harvest started in December. Half of the approximately 1 million 300 thousand tonnes of oranges produced throughout the country are grown in orchards in Hatay, Adana, Mersin, Osmaniye …

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