Turkey

Turkey almost fully meets its demand for tea through its own production. From 2019 to 2023, the volume of tea production in the country increased on average by 3.3% and reached 343.5 thousand tons.

Most of the chickpea production is concentrated in Central Anatolia in the vicinity of the cities of Ankara, Yozgat, Kirshehir, Konya, Karaman and Chorum. In 2022, 580.0 thousand tons of chickpeas were produced in Turkey, which is 22.1% more than in 2021.

The agricultural sector plays an important role in the Turkish economy and is developing dynamically: agricultural input in GDP more than doubled from $24 billion to $58 billion in 2002-2022. 

In recent years, the effect of the macroeconomic and structural reforms undertaken in the early 2000s, which contributed to the rapid socio-economic development of Turkey, began to weaken

Turkey has increased the fee for the passage of ships through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits by 8.3% and will now revise it annually, at the end of June. In October last year, fees have already been raised five times.