Turkey

While the story of tea begins in China, India took the top spot as the global leader in volume sales of packaged tea last year, with the two countries regularly vying for the number one position, according to the latest Mintel research.

Bolstering the opportunities that allow rural people in developing countries to remain at home is a critical component of any plan to tackle the contemporary migration crisis, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today.

I believe that every agrifood company must create a strategic growth plan, lead and improve their profit margins. The Turkish labour force is 28.8 million and 25% of this workforce works in agrifood sector. I know that Turkey has enormous opportunities in agriculture and food industry. It accounts for 7.1 percent of the country’s GDP. The sector’s financial contribution to the overall GDP increased 43 percent from 2002 to 2014, reaching USD 57.2 billion in 2014. Clearly, Turkey is one of the largest exporters of agricultural exports in the region and it has a USD 5 billion of trade surplus.

With a record 130 million people worldwide now dependent on humanitarian assistance, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that though solutions to the crises that plunged these people into such desperate hardship are neither simple nor quick, “there are things we can all do – today, and every day. We can show compassion, we can raise our voices against injustice, and we can work for change.”

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced that the huge investment package. When implementing reforms at the level of innovation in the stamp tax, starting the mobilization of savings in the public sector.

Turkey is ready to receive Russian tourists, said Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, TRT Haber news channel reported July 1.

Critical needs of the most vulnerable children confirmed by World Vision survey

Baku will host the annual conference of the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), which has more than 300 members from 88 countries, said the message of the Baku International Sea Trade Port CJSC May 17.

Days before the opening of FAO’s 30th Regional Conference for Europe here, Turkey inaugurated its ambitious new Expo on the theme of “Greening the Future.” The high-level inaugural ceremony last Friday was attended by Vladimir Rakhmanin, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia.

Ankara and Moscow will discuss the prospects for resuming the supply of Turkish agricultural products to Russia, Turkey's Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock told Trend Apr.25.