Overcoming hurdles and launching its first cherry exports to China last month, Turkey’s cherry sales to the Far East country have totalled 3.3 million dollars and the Western Mediterranean region of the country accounted for 1.9 million dollars of the total cherry exports. Western Mediterranean Exporters’ Association (BAİB) Chairman Hakkı …
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22 August
Turkey top producer of hazelnuts, cherries, figs and apricots
One of the leading countries in Europe and the world in agricultural production, Turkey is the top producer and exporter of hazelnuts, cherries, figs and apricots, according to a statement released by the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry. “Turkey is the world leader in the production and export of hazelnuts, cherries, …
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22 August
Fiskobirlik opens new hazelnut purchasing season
Hazelnut Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Union (FİSKOBİRLİK), as of today, opened the 2019 product hazelnut purchasing season. Lütfi Bayraktar, Chairman of the Board of Directors of FİSKOBİRLİK said that 50 teams were formed in all of the cooperatives and they started accepting products. Bayraktar stating that they apply a purchase policy …
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22 August
Disposable Plastic Bags Prohibited In New Zealand
Disposable plastic bags prohibited in New Zealand… Number of countries implementing similar prohibitions exceeded 80… In New Zealand, the regulation prohibiting the use of disposable plastic bags to a very large extent entered into force. As of July 1, 2019, the sale and use of disposable plastic bags by the …
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22 August
Apricot kernels are the new income of producers in Malatya
In Malatya, where most of the world’s apricot production is realized, it is aimed to export 20 million dollars apricot kernel this year… In addition to apricots, farmers in Malatya provide economic returns through their kernels. 8 thousand 600 tons of apricot kernel export made last year from the city …
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22 August
NİHAT UYSALLI: WE SHOULD FOCUS ON THE IMAGE OF TURKISH PASTA SPECIFICALLY
“We import expensive wheat and export pasta for cheap.” Chairman of Pasta Producers and Industrialists Association (MÜSAD) Nihat Uysallı said that the export figures in the first six months of 2019 showed despite the increase in the amount of pasta exports, they could not achieve the same increase of income. …
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22 August
IN NO CORNER OF THE PLANET A SINGLE CHILD GOES HUNGRY!
Guadalupe Valdez, FAO’s Zero Hunger Ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean, said: “We have to consider this as a global fight so that in no corner of the planet a single child goes hungry.” guadalupe valdez ile ilgili görsel sonucu Waldez stated: “To achieve progress in the fight against …
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22 August
FATMA ŞAHİN: GASTROANTEP WILL BE ORGANIZED BETWEEN 12-15 SEPTEMBER 2019
Fatma Şahin, Mayor of Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, in her statement, said that they will tell about not only Gaziantep’s kebab, lahmacun and baklava but also development of a city in the International Gaziantep Gastronomy Festival (Gastroantep) which will be held for the second time this year. The 2nd International Gaziantep …
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22 August
TARIK TEZEL: OUR MILK IS HEALTHY BUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE IS DIRTY
Turkey Milk, Meat, Food Industrialists and Producers Association (SETBİR) Chairman Tarık Tezel said: “It is necessary to increase the number of animals in order to meet the animal protein needs of our population.” Tarık Tezel explained that this investment would not only feed domectic population with sufficient animal protein, so …
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22 August
DERYA PALA: LET’S MEET AT THE 4TH EGG SUMMIT IN ANTALYA
The latest developments and problems in the egg sector which ranks in the eighth place in world egg production with an annual production exceeding 22 billion units and in the third place with its exports reaching 431 million dollars, struggling with the export crisis to Iraq in the last days, …
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