Press release… Türkiye, which is the world leader in cherry production with a harvest of 700 thousand tonnes, entered the 2023 season with the target of 80 thousand tonnes of cherry exports and 200 million dollars in foreign currency income. “Cherry Harvest Festival” was held in İzmir’s Kemalpaşa district, the …

Press release… Türkiye aims to export 80 thousand tonnes of cherry… Türkiye, which is the world leader in cherry production with a harvest of 700 thousand tonnes, entered the 2023 season with the target of 80 thousand tonnes of cherry exports and 200 million dollars in foreign currency income. “Cherry …

It has been suggested that Africa is experiencing an “infrastructure binge” at the expense of investment in agriculture. In fact, farmers need infrastructure to get produce to market and will benefit from investment in it… The First Law of Economics, the joke has it, is that for every economist there …

Press release… “We Should Set the Targets of Dry Grape and Table Grape Growing at the Beginning of the Season” “The day we learn to say NEIN (No) our raisins will pay off” Two-thirds of the 2022/23 season has been left behind in seedless raisins, where Türkiye is the world …

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 …

Press release… Veysel Memiş, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters’ Association (AHBİB), said that they succeeded in boosting exports on a value basis with the increase in export unit prices in the January-March period of 2023, despite the difficulties in global …

Press release… Aegean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters’ Association (EHBYİB) has ramped up its exports 4 times in the last 4 years and has managed to exceed the 1 billion dollar threshold. Aegean cereals, pulses, oilseeds exporters set an export target of 1.1 billion dollars in 2023. Speaking at …

Minister of National Education Mahmut Özer said that they have restructured agricultural high schools in order to train qualified human resources in the field of agriculture. Minister Özer announced that the number of schools providing education in the field of agriculture reached 144 from 72, a spike of 100 percent …