The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 121.5 points in September 2023, almost unchanged from its value in August, as declines in the price indices of vegetable oils, dairy and meat had offset increases in the sugar and cereal price indices. At this level, the index stood 14.6 points (10.7 percent) …

Press release… Saffet Kalyoncu, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Associations (DKİB), said that in the January-September period of 2023, exports from Trabzon, Rize, Artvin and Gümüşhane provinces in the Eastern Black Sea Region amounted to 1 billion 31 million 873 thousand 835 dollars …

Glyphosate use must be curbed, but prohibition may have adverse effect… WUR researchers Violette Geissen and Pieter de Wolf stress that the environmental risks of using chemical pesticides must be reduced as much as possible. However, whether the available alternatives are better for humans, the environment, soil life and the …

Press release… In the first month of the 2023/2024 hazelnut export season, which started on 1 September 2023; hazelnut exports from Türkiye reached 24 thousand 344 tonnes and 151 million 780 thousand dollars of foreign currency inflow was provided in return.Mehmet Cirav, Chairman of the Hazelnut and Hazelnut Products Sector …

Press release… 1.5 billion dollars of exports from Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) in September… September exports of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations were recorded as 1 billion 515 million dollars with an increase of 1 percent. While the members of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations exported 13 billion 688 million dollars in …

Seed sector orientated towards the Balkans… Balkan Seed Workshop was organised in Edirne by the Balkan Seed Growers Association hosted by Trakya University with the support of Turkish Sub-Union of Seed Industrialists and Producers (TSÜAB). Stating that Türkiye has always been in close relations with the Balkan geography, TSÜAB President …

Average temperature in the first nine months of the year was 1.40°C above pre-industrial levels… 5 October 2023 Last September was reported to be the hottest September on record so far. According to the statement made by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) operating under the European Commission, the average …

Potatoes are the fourth most important staple crop in the world, representing some 19 million hectares of production. In Belgium, they’re an economic powerhouse that has seen incredible growth in the past 25 years. In 1995, Belgian factories processed some 500,000 tonnes of potatoes. Last year, that number rose to …

Hazelnut export revenue of over 2 billion dollars is targeted… Dursun Oğuz Gürsoy, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Black Sea Hazelnut and Products Exporters’ Association (KFMİB), stated that their first target is to export 280 thousand tonnes of hazelnuts by the end of the season and …

Cereals and pulses are in the first place in exports… Celal Kadooğlu, President of the Southeastern Anatolia Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association, said that the most pasta, wheat flour and vegetable oil were exported from the Southeast. Celal Kadooğlu Celal Kadooğlu stated that the decline in exports …