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12 February

Haluk Tezcan: Türkiye is the world leader in flour exports

Press release… Haluk Tezcan, Vice Chair of Aegean Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association, announced that Türkiye is the world leader in flour exports. Haluk Tezcan “Indeed, this leadership is a leadership that suits us. We touch 8 billion people in some way. Last year, Ukraine-Russia grain corridor …

12 February

Muhammet Öztürk: Pet food exports reached 122 million dollars

Press release… In Türkiye, the cat and dog food sector grew 27 times in exports in a 10-year period and reached 122 million dollars in 2023. The sector aims to export 150 million dollars at the end of 2024. Muhammet Öztürk Muhammet Öztürk, Chairman of the Board of Directors of …

11 February

Ahmet Tiryakioğlu: Staple food exports exceeded 1 billion dollars in January

In January 2024, Türkiye exported 1.1 million tonnes of basic food products, mainly biscuit-pasta, wheat flour, vegetable oils, sugary and cocoa products and pasta, generating 1.03 billion dollars in revenue. The sector, which ramped up its export revenues by 5.4 percent in January compared to the same period last year, …

11 February

Turkish dried fruit sector came together for a sustainable future…

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık The Turkish dried fruit sector came together at the “Dried Fruit Workshop” in Izmir with the intensive participation of more than 120 participants from the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Trade, Chambers and Commodity Exchanges, Research Institutes, Provincial Directorates of Agriculture and Forestry in order …

11 February

Ali Çandır: Antalya accounts for 20 percent of fresh fruit and vegetable exports

Antalya Commodity Exchange (ATB) and Antalya Agriculture Council (ATAK) President Ali Çandır evaluated Antalya’s January export figures. Stating that Türkiye’s Mediterranean’s leading province of Antalya’s exports in January 2024 soared by 16.2 percent to 185 million dollars compared to the same month last year, Çandır also noted that agricultural exports …

11 February

Tolga Saylan: Erkunt Tractor will focus on exports this year

Tolga Saylan, CEO of Erkunt Tractor, said that they exported to England and Germany, which are considered to be the homeland of the tractor. Tolga Saylan Tolga Saylan, CEO of Erkunt Tractor, one of Türkiye’s leading manufacturers, stated that they have started to reap the fruits of their consistent investments …

10 February

Türkiye’s livestock population decreases in 2023!

The main source of the problem in Türkiye, which is trying to close the production deficit in red meat with imports, has once again emerged with animal production statistics. According to TURKSTAT (Turkish Statistical Institute), the number of bovine animals decreased by 2.6 per cent to 16 million 583 thousand …

10 February

Türkiye surpasses 1 billion dollars in organic product exports!

Press release… Turkish organic sector’s new export target is 2 billion dollars… Türkiye, which produces 1.6 million tonnes of organic products in 268 different products, mainly dry, fresh and frozen fruits and cotton, has exceeded 1 billion dollars in foreign currency income from the export of these products. Exporters, anticipating …

9 February

Ercan Korkmaz: We should encourage the production and consumption of pulses

Press release… Ercan Korkmaz, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Izmir Commodity Exchange, in his written statement, said that in the last 10 years, the amount of pulses production and consumption in our country has increased. Ercan Korkmaz “Consumption, which was 1.12 million tonnes in 2012, soared by …

9 February

World Pulses Day 2024! ‘Nourishing soils and people’

Shining the spotlight on the vital role of pulses in promoting soil health and nourishing people… FAO hosts global event that underscores the contribution pulses make to food security, healthy diets and the environment… A global event at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations …