Türkiye's farms produced more value in 2024 than in any year on record, clearing $80 billion for the first time. Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı put the total at $83.2 billion, a figure his ministry cites from the World Bank, and said it placed the country first in Europe and seventh in the world.
The number measures agricultural output, the value the sector adds across crops, livestock, forestry, and fishing. It is close to what economists call agricultural value added, roughly the farm sector's share of the economy. It is not the same as exports, which the Turkish Exporters Assembly reported at $36.2 billion for 2024, and it is not a tally of goods shipped abroad. It is what the whole sector produced and kept.
Yumaklı laid the record against a longer climb. In 2002, Türkiye's agricultural output stood at $24.5 billion, twelfth in the world. By 2023, the republic's centennial year, it had reached $72.9 billion and eighth place. The latest figure moves the country up another rung. China leads the same ranking by a wide margin, at about $1.298 trillion, on a farm sector many times the size.
The ministry attributes the $83.2 billion to a World Bank report on 2025 agricultural output. The World Bank's own published series for agriculture, forestry, and fishing value added shows a somewhat lower total for Türkiye, around $74 billion for 2024, a gap that may reflect a different data vintage or a revision in the report the ministry cites. Yumaklı presented the higher figure as the headline, and it is his ministry's account of where Türkiye ranks.
What gives the record some weight is the year it came out of. Turkish growers spent 2025 fighting agricultural frost and drought, the kind of season that usually shows up as a hole in the harvest. Erdoğan said on 3 July that the government paid ₺47 billion in compensation to producers hit by frost. The output figure held up anyway.
The state has pushed money into the sector for years. Erdoğan said support to agriculture ran to roughly ₺3 trillion over 23 years, with ₺939 billion allocated for 2024 and ₺938 billion budgeted for 2026. Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek has framed the spending as an investment in food security rather than a subsidy line to be trimmed.
Exports have moved in the same direction. Fresh fruit and vegetable shipments passed $2 billion in a single half-year for the first time in 2026, reaching $2.35 billion in the first six months, up 39 percent from a year earlier, according to figures from the Turkish Exporters Assembly reported by Anadolu Ajansı. Seafood exports cleared $1 billion over the same half.
Daily Sabah, reporting the output record, described it as Türkiye leading Europe on the measure. For a sector that critics have written off more than once, a record set in a drought year is an awkward result to argue with.