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Turkish honey, in the January-July period of the year, sweetened the mouths around the world. According to information compiled from the data of Eastern Black Sea Exporters' Association (DKİB), 2 thousand 945 tonnes of honey was sold, yielding 12 million 857 thousand 187 dollars of revenue in return during the period of January - July. Germany took first place in honey export. In this period, 3 million 721 thousand 369 dollars in Germany for 38 thousand tons of honey was sold. USA, the second with 2 million 459 thousand 724 dollars, Saudi Arabia with 2 million 6 thousand 874 dollars third, Kuwait 852 thousand 418 dollars, fourth, Austria 458 thousand 396 dollars with fifth income. During the period in question, honey was exported to China, Bulgaria, Libya, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Somalia, Mongolia, Afghanistan and Morocco. INTEREST TO TURKISH HONEY INCREASING DKİB Chairman Saffet Kalyoncu said that the interest in Turkish honey...

"We import expensive wheat and export pasta for cheap." Chairman of Pasta Producers and Industrialists Association (MÜSAD) Nihat Uysallı said that the export figures in the first six months of 2019 showed despite the increase in the amount of pasta exports, they could not achieve the same increase of income. Uysallı shared the information that Turkey takes the third place in the world as the amount of production and the second place in exports just after Italy, whereas the most important competitor in terms of exports Italy's average export unit price exceeds two folds. Uysallı also emphasized that they have the cheapest price among the countries exporting more than 20 tons in 2018 in the pasta exports which Turkey in the second place after Italy and said: "While Italy exports the tonne of pasta by 1,098 dollars, our average export figure per ton is only 455 dollars. Egypt, which is said to be our rival in the African market, exports pasta for a thousa...