Food and drink

By Lina Giannarou

Calls are growing for a boycott of Israeli products in Turkey, with a number of professional associations urging consumers to refrain from buying goods from a list of companies prepared following Israel’s recent Gaza operations.

By Alexandra Kassimi

Greek dairy firm Fage is investing in its overseas production capacity to offset losses within Greece, given that elsewhere the company’s sales are going from strength to strength while domestically things are looking rather grim.

Deputy Development Minister Gerasimos Giakoumatos warned on Monday that bakers not abiding by a new law requiring them to weigh fresh bread before they sell it would face fines.

Giakoumatis said that authorities would be checking if bakeries are weighing their bread after the law came into force on Monday.

"No reason for price hikes in fall"

BELGRADE -- Rasim Ljajić has said that he does not expect price hikes starting in the fall despite the damage the severe floods caused to the field of agriculture.

“We will have wheat and corn enough for exports, and good sunflower and fruit yields,” the minister of trade said in an interview to Tanjug.

There is a term in Turkish, very much repeated every mid-summer in Istanbul that can be translated as “to go nuts;” not in the sense of losing one’s mind, but leaving for the countryside for the hazelnut harvest. Many hazelnut growers have links with Istanbul, as most have jobs in the service sector, but when it is the season for hazelnut picking, it is hard to keep them in the city.

By Dimitra Manifava

Reforms introduced this spring aimed at bringing down the price of fresh milk have not only failed to deliver, but consumers have witnessed price hikes in recent months and are now turning to evaporated milk.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic has said that he does not expect price hikes as of this autumn despite the damage that the recent severe floods caused to the field of agriculture.

Team Mamaliga [Polenta] Warriors leave to London on Wednesday to begin their trip in the Mongol Rally, the world's biggest charity rally; their luggage includes the usual indispensable items - a tent, backpacks, a toolkit - and also one pot, one guitar, and one ukulele.

Romania has exported 1.646 million tonnes of wheat and maize over the first quarter of 2014, twice the amount of the 2013 Q1, which was 755,400 tonnes, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) data show.