Press release… Manisa Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry Metin Öztürk stated that approximately 45 thousand tonnes of cherries are produced in 91 thousand 300 decares of land in Manisa and said that the province being an early cherry production centre provides a great advantage to the producers in the …

Press release… ELÜSMarket, (ELÜS – Electronic Warehouse Receipt – EWR) a product market intermediary institution incorporated company, has been officially established with a capital of 21 million 450 thousand Turkish liras. The company is a partnership between 21 Commodity Exchange and İş Yatırım Menkul Değerler A.Ş. The establishment ceremony took …

New criteria are planned to be introduced to prevent counterfeiting and adulteration in butter. According to the draft, the milk fat ratio of butter without added salt will be at least 82 percent. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry prepared the ‘Turkish Food Codex Draft Communiqué on Butter and Clarified …

Competing with Norwegian producers in Europe, the Turkish aquaculture sector has accelerated its efforts to ramp up its exports to over 2 billion dollars this year. The sector, which wants to overcome the price pressure in Russia and Japan with alternative markets, is preparing to enter the world giant China. …

From seeds to satellites, agriculture has come a very long way. Today’s farms increasingly deploy drone technology, 5G mobility, and soil monitoring solutions from the deep tech sector. Farmers are adapting to AI as the agrifood and tech sectors blend ripe innovations. [Shutterstock] Farmers are adapting to AI as the …

While the harvest of table apricots has started in the Mediterranean province of Mersin’s Mut district, 150 thousand tonnes of apricot yield and 80 thousand tonnes of exports are expected this year. Mut table apricots are exported to Russia, the Middle East, India and Europe. In Türkiye, where 90 to …

Haluk Tezcan, Head of Turkish Flour Industrialists’ Federation (TUSAF), said that the abundance of wheat production in Türkiye will mobilise the idle capacity and this will be beneficial in expanding the export markets and quantity. Haluk Tezcan Haluk Tezcan, who also evaluated the export figures in the first two months …

03/05/2024 Rome – The benchmark for world food commodity prices edged higher in April, as rising meat prices and modest upticks for vegetable oils and cereals more than offset decreases for sugar and dairy products, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday. 2024 wheat forecast trimmed… FAO also …

Press release… Aegean exporters, who exported fresh, dried, frozen and canned fruits and brought 2.4 billion dollars of foreign currency to Türkiye in the last 1-year period, boosted their target with the arrival of Interfresh Eurasia Fair in Izmir. Fruit exporters have increased their export targets for 2028 to 3.5 …

Global rice supplies have steadied following last year’s surge, but the market still faces exposure to potential dry weather risks induced by El Nino, according to a senior executive at commodity trader Louis Dreyfus Co. Rice prices in key Asian export hubs have eased in recent weeks after climbing last year …