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A tender for 800 head of breeding bulls (500 head of Simmental, 100 head of Charolais, 100 head of Limousin, 50 head of Brown Swiss, 50 head of Montbeliard breed) will be held on December 15, 2014.

Post learned, November 22 that Turkish officials now require an official attestation that imports utilizing enzymes or microorganisms are free from genetically engineered enzymes or microorganisms.

Turkey's Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock requires a government attestation that imports of enzymes and microorganisms are not obtained from genetic engineering.

Turkey experienced adverse weather in 2014 that resulted in lower tree nut production.

Turkey produced 2.39 million metric tons (MMT) of sugar in marketing year (MY) 2013/14 from a harvested area of 280,000 hectares.

Marketing year (MY) 2014 sunflowerseed area and production is now estimated at 530,000 hectares and 1.2 million metric tons (MMT).

The MY 2014 Turkish cotton crop is forecast at 430,000 hectares and 680,000 MT (3.1 million bales).

Turkish sultana raisin production is expected to increase by 35 percent in MY2014/15 to 320,000 MT, thereby rebounding from last year’s poor crop.