Facilitating Smallholder Farmers’ Market Access
In the OIC Member Countries
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Demand and
market size
The role of
agricultural trade
relative to overall
trade reflects the
same type of
structural change
affecting the
economy at large.
Agricultural trade
is expanding even
as it becomes a
smaller part of
trade overall
. Europe
and MENA are the
two centers of gravity for Turkey’s agricultural trade. Consistent with the fact that most
large agricultural importers are in Europe, that region remains the single most important
destination for Turkey’s agricultural exports, receiving about 49 percent of those exports
in 2010. Exports to most other regions have grown modestly in recent years but still
constitute a small share of exports by value. Exports to MENA, which have surged in the
past five years, are an exception. MENA received nearly 30 percent of Turkey’s agricultural
exports in 2010. learly demonstrates MENA’s growing importance as a
destination for Turkish exports.
FIGURE 50: AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS AND IMPORTS, AND AGRICULTURAL
EXPORTS AS A SHARE OF MERCHANDISE EXPORTS, TURKEY, 1961–2010
Source: FAOSTAT (FAO 2014).
FIGURE 51: COMPOSITION OF TURKISH EXPORTS BY DESTINATION REGION, 1993–2010
Source: Authors’ calculations and FAOSTAT (FAO 2014).