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In 2015-16, Ukraine deregulated some food safety import procedures and significantly modified its food safety legislation, introducing HACCP principles.

In MY 2015/16, yields were favorable in Turkey and the total production of citrus was 3.9 MMT. The sector expects that the yield in MY 2016/17 will follow the same upward trend as last year.

Despite the slowdown in the growth of the Turkish economy in general, the food retail sector is expected to grow eight percent annually. The total retail sector in Turkey reached US$214 billion...

Turkey published its Biosafety Law and implementing regulations in 2010. Ever since, this legislation has continued to disrupt Turkey’s agriculture and food sectors due to inharmonious procedures...

Turkey will start to implement a new subsidy program for agricultural products in 2017, the National Agriculture Project, which has an anticipated annual budget of nearly US$4 billion.

Turkish soybean area and production for MY 2016 is now estimated about 30,000 hectares and 100,000 MT. Adverse weather conditions have been reported to have affected yields.

No new veterinary certificates were negotiated in 2016. Ukraine has introduced a single food safety authority in charge of review of all certificates.

MY 2016 Turkish cotton crop is now estimated at 400,000 hectares and 705,000 metric tons (MT) (3.2 million bales). Suitable weather conditions, quality seeds and good farming practices...

This report incorporates various updates to Production, Supply and Distribution (PSD) data based on recent export numbers as well as domestic production volumes for sunflowerseed, soybeans...

MY2016 is expected to be a good year for all deciduous fruits in Turkey.

Demand for food products served as an anchor for the Ukrainian economy in 2016. On-going political and economic crisis resulted in general economic slowdown in 2013-15.

Lower polarity rates in the last two harvest seasons and unchanged sugar quotas led to a substantial increase in sugar imports in 2015.