Turkey exported 206,032 tons of hazelnut and obtained 1.29 billion USD in the 11th month of 2009-2010 hazelnut export season which started on September 1, 2009.

The ranking was announced by Istanbul's Chamber of Industry on Tuesday, 27th July 2010. Just like over the past thirteen years, our company Gürsoy Tarimsal Urunler Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. ranks amongst the first 500 largest Turkish industrial corporations according to the ISO 500 Survey in 2009.

Looking to grow its product in the 140-million-person Russian market, the Hazelnut Promotion Group, or FTG, has hired world-champion figure skater Irina Slutskaya to promote the Turkish export in her home country.

In the election, which took place at the Blacksea Exporters' Union Head Office in Giresun on 24^th April 2010, our chairman Dursun Oguz Gursoy was re-elected as the Chairman of the Blacksea Exporters Union for the second time.

As the agriculture sector seemed mostly untouched by a crisis that looked determined to affect all aspects of the economy, it seems that the sector is smoothly leaving the instability of 2009 behind. Global increases in grain and food prices seem to have benefited Turkey’s agriculture sector as it enjoyed growth in 2009...