Antalya Commodity Exchange Cairman Ali Çandır stated that the prices of goods and services used in agriculture surged by 29.02 percent annually in January. There was also a monthly increase of 5.95 percent in the Agricultural Input Price Index in January. Ali Çandır, Chairman of the Antalya Commodity Exchange (ATB) …
Read More »Ali Çandır: Rent hikes in agricultural lands affect production
Chairman of the Antalya Commodity Exchange Ali Çandır, who drew attention to the importance of agricultural areas in Antalya province, disclosed that agricultural areas are rapidly disappearing due to the increasing zoning pressure day by day. “Especially in the last few years, the rent hikes applied by landowners have become …
Read More »Ali Çandır: Tomato production falls in Antalya, wholesale market transaction volumes alarming
Antalya Commodity Exchange (ATB) Chairman Ali Çandır said that in 2024, there was a serious contraction in Antalya’s agricultural trade. Drawing attention to the decline in tomato, vegetable and fruit trade in recent years, Çandır stated that the functioning of the market was negatively affected. ‘Only 10 percent of production …
Read More »Ali Çandır: We are establishing an organised agricultural zone in Antalya province
Antalya Commodity Exchange (ATB) is cooperating with institutions for the establishment of an organised agricultural zone, which will be the first in Türkiye’s Mediterranean province of Antalya, the capital of agriculture. Antalya Commodity Exchange, which signed a cooperation protocol in agriculture with Antalya Governorship and Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry, …
Read More »Ali Çandır: We are working to bring Antalya’s cut flowers to more markets
Antalya Commodity Exchange (ATB) continues its efforts to ramp up agricultural production and improve trade and exports. The ATB delegation, which had previously visited Colombia to develop the cut flower market of Antalya, Türkiye’s leading region in cut flowers, also made contacts for the development of trade in the United …
Read More »Ali Çandır: We expect a 55 percent increase in olive harvest around Antalya
In Türkiye’s Mediterranean province of Antalya, two olive trees aged 800 and 1200, which could only yield 25 kilograms each last year due to drought, are expected to yield a total of 70 kilograms of olives this year. Antalya Commodity Exchange (ATB) President Ali Çandır said that they expect about …
Read More »Ali Çandır: Fresh fruit and vegetable exports shrank by 10.4 percent in Antalya region
Antalya Commodity Exchange President (ATB) Ali Çandır announced that in the first 7 months of 2024, 20.6 percent of Türkiye’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports and 45.8 percent of ornamental plants and products exports were made from Antalya. Ali Çandır Türkiye’s Mediterranean province of Antalya remained below the country average …
Read More »Ali Çandır: We should switch to fully closed irrigation systems in agriculture
Mediterranean province of Antalya’s Commodity Exchange (ATB) President Ali Çandır stated that there is a deepening water problem in the region and there is a need for effective water management and called for product pattern planning, switching to fully closed circuit irrigation systems and taking water harvesting into investment planning. …
Read More »Ali Çandır: We started to export registered wheat to Middle East market
Registered wheat exports to the Middle East market… Three wheat varieties specific to Antalya, named ‘Koç’, ‘Perge’ and ‘Seki’, were developed and registered. Among the first and only registered wheat of the city, ‘Koç’, which is suitable for growing on the coast, was harvested and 1000 tonnes were exported to …
Read More »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 …
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