Press release…
While the Mediterranean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters’ Association (AHBİB) realized an export of 116.3 million dollars in August with an increase of 39 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, Afghanistan was the country with the highest rise in foreign sales. Exporting 1,649 tonnes of products to Afghanistan in August, AHBİB achieved a 20-fold increase in this market and brought in foreign currency of 2.16 million dollars to the Turkish economy.
‘We started to get satisfactory results in accessing alternative markets’
Hüseyin Arslan, Chairman of the Board of AHBİB, stated that they achieved significant success in South Asia, South America, Scandinavia, Arabian Peninsula and Africa in their search for alternatives to the Middle East countries, which are the traditional export markets of the sector.
Arslan said, “Our Association, which supported the sector’s exports of 783.1 million dollars by 15 percent in August, added value to a wide range of products from vegetable oils to chocolate products, from confectionery products to pulses, from cereals to spices in 163 countries.”
“In the month of August, Iraq was at the top of the countries to which we exported the most, with a surge of 97 percent and a value of 25.1 million dollars. This country was followed by Syria with an increase of 241 percent and a value of 15.9 million dollars and Yemen with a 220 percent rise and a value of 5.2 million dollars,” Arslan added.
“We achieved the highest increases in export volume in August in Afghanistan, Djibouti and Indonesia markets. In Afghanistan, where we achieved an increase of 2 thousand 22 percent, we reached an export value of 2 million 166 thousand dollars. To Djibouti 3 million 711 thousand dollars with a hike of 969 percent. In addition to these countries, we also achieved remarkable increases in exports in the markets of Georgia, Kenya, Norway and Liberia,” Arslan concluded…