Assessments about foreign trade of some non-wood forest products in Turkey

Abstract

In this study, the foreign trade of some plant based non-wood forest products are investigated. Firstly, the changes in the export and import values of chestnut, thyme, bay leaf and pine nuts, which are non-wood forest products, have been examined in the last ten years (1998-2017) using "external trade statistics published by the Turkey Statistical Institute. Afterwards, the amount and revenue projections of thyme and bay leaves were made by using export amounts and export revenues between 1990 and 2017. Estimated values were obtained for projections based on moving averages, exponential smoothing, linear and exponential trend. According to the results of the study, it is estimated that the export quantities and revenues of thyme and bay leaf will increase in 2019-2023.

Keywords

• dış ticaret
• trend analizi
• odun dışı orman ürünleri
• foreign trade
• trend analysis
• non-wood forest products