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24 May

Şemsettin Özgür: We could reach 2 billion dollars in dried fruit exports!

Press release… Şemsettin Özgür, Chair of the Sectoral Council of the Turkish Dried Fruit and Products Exporters’ Associations, emphasised that they would be concentrating on China and India as target markets and that one of their key priorities would be to improve quality and food safety. Chairman Özgür, who stated …

24 May

Rome-based UN agencies and partners to convene global experts and leaders for Rome Nutrition Week 2026…

Press release… 25–28 May 2026 | FAO Headquarters, Rome – and online… The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme (WFP), with support from the UN-Nutrition Secretariat, together with the leadership from a multi-country Steering Committee, will …

24 May

Halil Gündoğdu: Let’s bring the hides of sacrificial animals back into the economy!

Press release… May, 2026 With just a few days to go before Eid al-Adha, Halil Gündoğdu, Chair of the Aegean Leather and Leather Goods Exporters’ Association, has called for the hides of sacrificial animals to be put to economic use. Speaking at a press conference organised by the Aegean Exporters’ …

24 May

Cengiz Balık: Value-added growth in strawberry exports continues

Press release… Strawberries, a value-added product within the fresh fruit category exported to around 40 countries in both fresh and frozen forms, saw a 56 percent spike in exports across Türkiye during the January–April 2026 period. Türkiye’s total strawberry exports rose to 20,871,000 dollars in the first four months. Cengiz …

23 May

Hayrettin Uçak elected as Chairman of the Turkish Fruit and Vegetable Products Sector Council!

Press release… Hayrettin Uçak, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, has been elected Chairman of the Turkish Fruit and Vegetable Products Sector Council for the 2026–30 term. The Council is expected to generate 2.5 billion dollars in foreign exchange for Türkiye …

22 May

Aegean Exporters’ Associations bring exporters together with commercial counsellors…

Press release… Exporters from the Aegean region met with commercial counsellors who have served for four years in various parts of the world to help Türkiye achieve its export targets. At the “Commercial Counsellors’ Meeting” organised by the Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB), 10 commercial counsellors held over 150 bilateral business …

22 May

Turan Göksan: We aim to double our carpet exports to Malaysia.

The Turkish Carpet Sector organised the “Malaysia Carpet URGE Delegation” between 11 and 14 May 2026 to strengthen its position in Malaysia, one of its target markets. Nine companies took part in the mission, which was organised as part of the “Carpet UR-GE Project” – an initiative led by the …

22 May

Entrepreneur begins coffee cultivation trials in southeastern province of Adana!

May 2026… A Turkish entrepreneur has launched a trial coffee cultivation project in the southern province of Adana, aiming to introduce coffee farming to the fertile plains of Çukurova, one of Türkiye’s most important agricultural regions. Machine engineer and greenhouse investor Engin Hazar planted 100 coffee saplings in a 1.5-decare greenhouse in the Sarıçam …

22 May

Agricultural input prices in Türkiye rise 34.3 percent annually in March!

Türkiye’s agricultural input price index rose 34.26 percent year-on-year and 3.89 percent month-on-month in March, according to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK). In the previous month, annual and monthly increases stood at 31.55 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively. On a monthly basis in March, the index for goods and services consumed …

22 May

Türkiye’s crop production forecast to rise in 2026!

Türkiye’s crop production is expected to increase significantly in 2026 compared with the previous year, according to estimates released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK). Wheat The outlook follows comments by Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı last week, who said agricultural production affected by frost and drought in 2025 is expected …