Press release… Tomato and its products exports increased by 20 percent… Fresh tomatoes, which make up almost half of the exports in the tomato and tomato products sector, started the year with a 23 percent increase in exports. In 2021, Turkey earned 729 million dollars in foreign exchange revenue from …

Press release… TürkTraktör, Breaking Production and Export Records in 2021… Produces Its 1 Millionth Tractor… TürkTraktör, Turkey’s first manufacturer company in the automotive industry, is proud to produce its 1 millionth tractor, a symbol of its 68-year-old history. TürkTraktör, which has implemented hundreds of innovations that have guided the agricultural …

Press release… Dried fruit sector exceeded 1.5 billion dollars for the first time Super foods with high nutritional value, of which Turkiye is the world leader in production and export; Seedless raisins, dried apricots and dried figs exceeded 1 billion dollars in 2021. Explaining that the exports of dried fruits …

Our readers know, because I repeat it whenever I can. For me, the most important and primary problem in agriculture, food and non-wood forest products sectors, briefly in agriculture, is export! Obviously the only option in this field is export. We should do whatever we can to boost agricultural exports. …

Nearly all products made of milk increased in Turkey last year, although drinking milk output decreased, according to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) on Feb. 14.  The amount of collected cow’s milk in 2021 rose by 2.1 percent on an annual basis to more than 10 million tons, TÜİK said.Drinking milk production decreased …

Country sees hen egg production of 19.3B units last year… ANKARA… Turkiye’s chicken meat production rose to 2.2 million tonnes in 2021, according to the country’s statistical authority on Monday. The figure posted a 5.1% year-on-year increase last year, TurkStat said in a statement. The country saw 51,301 tonnes of …

The Turkish flower sector has sent 65 million cut flowers to 24 countries for Valentine’s Day, a traditionally busy period for cultivators. İsmail Yılmaz The atmosphere is hectic at greenhouses in the southern Mediterranean city of Antalya, the flower production hub of the country, in the runup to Feb. 14. Sector …

Turkiye announced a significant reduction in taxes on basic food supplies Saturday to counter soaring inflation while also unveiling a new credit guarantee fund package and a new model to bring “under-the-mattress” gold into the economy. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the value-added tax (VAT) would be lowered to 1% …

Russia may increase the quota of tomatoes imported from Turkiye by 50,000 tons, according to reports. Russian news agency Interfax said the country may increase the tomato import quota from Turkiye, which is currently 300,000 tons, to 350,000 tons. Russia’s Agriculture Ministry is preparing a new draft regarding the import …

The American agricultural industry posted its highest annual export levels ever recorded in 2021, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced. The final 2021 trade data published by the Department of Commerce shows that exports of U.S. farm and food products to the world totaled $177 billion, topping the 2020 total …