Goji berries (also known as Wolfberry) are very good choice to expand their product range for companies involved in organic food market. This small, exotic super food’s natural benefits, fresh, unique taste and increasing popularity makes it wanted by everyone.

Briefly, Goji berries mother country is China and Tibet. Organic certified goji berries grow mostly at Ningxia region of China.

Goji berries are called as “super food” (like our other product dried mulberries) because goji berries contain great antioxidants, nutrients and unbelievably, five hundred times more Vitamin C than oranges. It also helps for a stronger immune system, protects liver, increases sexual vigor (yes, this is one of the biggest reason why goji berries are so popular) in a natural way.

Because organic certified goji berries are chemical free and pesticide free, it makes it even more popular because you can feel it’s benefits stronger. While organic goji berries have a big demand, companies should be very careful on them. The reason is, there are too many companies selling “organic goji berries” but mostly they are not really organic.

China is a still closed country and hard to control producers even they are certified by organic certification organizations. According to our market researched, we are well informed about purchasers having too many problems regarding quality, taste and pesticides. So, we highly recommend you to be careful before purchasing goji berries.

I am telling you these, because we recently started marketing goji berries and we ship them directly from our partner company in China. To guarantee quality, we provide pesticide and microbiological analysis before every shipment so you can be sure about what you will get.

Whether if you will purchase organic goji berries from BATA FOOD or any other supplier, you should be careful and be sure about quality to prevent any surprises. We recommend you to deal with trustworthy companies. Otherwise, you may have problems at customs border of your country or labeling them as organic.

You can see some details about our organic goji berries here.

Okan University and BATA FOOD - Bardakçı Tarım Gıda İç ve Dış Tic. Ltd. Şti. signed collaboration protocol.

Okan University, ”The University Closest to Business Life” and our company BATA FOOD – Bardakçı Tarım signed a collaboration protocol. We always aim to support growth of skilled labor, organic agriculture, food production and foreign trade industries and now this protocol will give us a great chance to show our support.

With signed collaboration protocol, both sides agreed on below subjects:

• Partnership and R&D fields of BATA FOOD and Okan University will be determined
• Okan University academic staff will give consulting service to BATA FOOD
• BATA FOOD will open internship program to Okan University Vocational School students.
• BATA FOOD will support students on food production and foreign trade subjects to prepare them for business life.
• Okan University will educate BATA FOOD employees to improve their skills on necessary fields.

We hope that this strategic cooperation and University-Private Sector practices will be profitable for both Okan University, university students and also our company.

If you are involved in organic food industry, probably you were at Biofach also. But incase you could not find a chance to visit Biofach,  you can check two short videos below introduced by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement (IFOAM) and Nürnberg Messe.

These two videos can help you to get a brief information about what happened and what were the highlights at Biofach 2012.

Enjoy!

Because bitter apricot kernels are very rare, it is hard to find good quality bitter apricot kernels which is real bitter (not mixture) and aflatoxin free.

While good quality conventional apricot kernels are hard to get, finding organic bitter apricot kernels are way harder. Most of them have aflatoxin or pesticide problem on that season. Because aflatoxin problem occurs over time and it’s been already 7 month after 2011 crop.

Due to these facts, we are currently out of stock on Bitter Apricot Kernels and can not take risk of purchasing more from farmers. Also, we recommend you not to purchase from anywhere in that season. Otherwise, it is possible for you to have problems due to quality.

To get best quality bitter apricot kernels without a problem, we suggest our clients to make reservation before new crop, and get the goods without losing time. So please contact us regarding organic and conventional bitter apricot kernels on June – July 2012 so we can arrange stocks for you.

Until that time, we can supply organic sweet apricot kernels (as a replacement) or other products included in our range.

Please share your comments with us!

BATA FOOD will be at Biofach fair between February 15 – 18, 2012.

Biofach is worlds largest Organic Food & Beverage fair with 2544 Exhibitors and 44591 visitors (2011 values) which opens it’s door once a year.

Only introducing certified organic products are allowed during the trade show. For companies / people who deal with organic industry, they can not miss it.

To introduce our products and meet new people, we will be also at Biofach fair.

We will be able to introduce our products which are:

• organic dried apricots
• organic dried mulberries
• organic dried pitted prunes,
• organic dried pitted sour cherries
• organic sweet apricot kernels
• organic sun dried tomatoes
• organic pomegranate juice concentrate
• organic apple juice concentrate
• organic sesame tahini

and more.

To discuss new business opportunities and co-operation possiblities, please contact and inform us your available dates, so we can schedule a meeting with you.

Besides, please feel free to send your meeting request during the trade show at info(at)batafood.com

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This video is unfortunately in Turkish, but shortly, I can tell you that it is about a farmer who kindly requests from a strange driver to drive him to his village.
Driver says that he can drive farmer only if farmer give all of the figs in the basket  to him. Farmer says that it is too much for that, do not accept that request, and the story begins…

Enjoy!

According to FAO, if world population reaches 9 billion on 2050 as expected, agricultural production should be increased over %70 to fulfill needs.

Improved watering, erosion prevention techniques should be applied, also organic program and ecological methods should be applied to increase yield.

Click here to see Full Report published by FAO (PDF)

 Aegean Exports Association

We translated it so all companies / industry related business people outside Turkey can study English version easier.

You can find 2011 / 2011 weekly export statistics of dried figs, dried apricots and seedles raisins which are provided by Aegean Exporters Association / Turkey below. You can also find comparison with last years / crops export statistics.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any inquiries for organic & conventional dried fruits, which BATA FOOD supply over 12 countries. You can fill out the request a quote form to send fast inquiries and get prices.

There were 10 sub-trade shows at fair, which are;

• Anuga Fine Food
• Anuga Drinks
• Anuga Meat
• Anuga Frozen Food
• Anuga Chilled & Fresh Food
• Anuga Dairy
• Anuga Bread & Bakery, Hot Beverages
• Anuga Organic
• Anuga RetailTec
• Anuga Food Service

We attended to ANUGA as a visitor to represent our company BATA FOOD. I want to say that, if you are in a food business, you should not miss this fair. All kind of food stuff even machinery suppliers are waiting for you with amazing options (next fair will be on 2013, which is two years later). ANUGA is a huge place for networking and finding new ways to grow your business, even if you visit or attend.

Also with this reason, you will be able to explore great Cologne city with good historical places (Köln-Dome is my favorite place).
Unlike Paris (SIAL 2010 Fair Reviews), public transportation options are very comfortable and easy for tourists. One of the best part is, if you are exhibitor or visitor to ANUGA, all public transport vehicles are completely FREE during fair date.

Our aim was to meet our existing customers and to look for new opportunities and fair was really helpful about these. We hope that we will be able to inform you about good news which came out by our meetings at ANUGA fair.

Below, you will find some photos which we took at ANUGA 2011 fair and also short video.

See you next time, at ANUGA 2013!

Auf Wiedersehen!