Tag Archives: Mehmet Ali Işık

Press release… Türkiye, the world’s food warehouse, ramped up its exports to South Korea, one of its target markets, by 34 percent to 145 million dollars in 2024. Turkish food exporters will collaborate with the Korea Origin Information Agency to further ramp up food exports to South Korea. The Aegean …

Press release… Türkiye’s eastern Anatolia’s province of Malatya, which meets a large portion of the world’s dried apricot demand, is facing its most challenging production season in history. The agricultural frost and cold spell in April 2025 caused significant damage by catching apricot trees in bloom. It is estimated that …

Press release… 11 of the 12 export champions in the dried fruit sector are from the Aegean region… The dried fruit sector, one of Türkiye’s traditional export sectors, is represented by 12 companies in the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TİM) Top 1000 Exporters List, which is the champions league of exporters. …

Press release… A workshop on dried figs was held in Türkiye’s western province of Aydın with the aim of developing the sustainable and competitive structure of the heavenly fruit, increasing its exports, and finding solutions to production and export-related problems. Mehmet Ali Işık Speaking at the ‘Dried Fig Workshop,’ Mehmet …

Press release… Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association’s “Sustainable Management of Dried Figs with Aflatoxin Project” was deemed worthy of the award in the competition where eight countries, including the USA, Spain, Austria and China, were nominated. In addition to contributing to the prestige of Turkish dried figs, the …

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that the labour of farmers is critical for food safety, sustainability and economic development. Emphasizing that agricultural sector is a strategic area that shapes the future of not only …

Press release… Exports of sultanas, dried apricots and dried figs exceed 1 billion dollars… Sultanas In the remaining period of the 2024/25 season, exports of sultanas, dried apricots and dried figs, in which Türkiye is the world leader in production and exports, increased by 9 percent from 924 million to …

Press release… Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, stated that they had a rewarding year in 2024 by combining fairs, Development of International Competitiveness Projects and TURQUALITY Projects, Türkiye’s dried fruit exports surged by 15.5 percent to 1 billion 856 million dollars and …

Press release… Dried fig exporters expect a more constructive cooperation from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to solve the aflatoxin and ochratoxin problem. Stating that aflatoxin and ochratoxin formation increased in dried fig exports in the 2024/25 season due to climate change, Mehmet Ali Işık, Chair of the Aegean …

Press release… Türkiye is signing a successful export season in seedless raisins, where it is the world leader in production and exports. Produced by 55 thousand producers in the triangle of Manisa, Denizli and Izmir, seedless raisin exports soared by 13 percent in the first half of the 2024/25 season, …