Özet:

Traditional foods are the foods produced by traditional methods that reflect the local and cultural heritage of a particular geographical region. Thanks to the cultural structure of Turkey, geographical location, ecological and climatically diversity traditional foods potential is quite high. Policies are determined and legislative arrangements are made in order to protect and aim to ensure on to continuity traditional foods. The most important of these regulations is the Geographical Indication (GI), and it ensures to product and brand guarantee to traditional foods. Besides to increasing the production volume on the industry transfer of traditional foods will contribute to guaranteeing elements such as packaging, labeling and food safety. These elements will add sustainability to rural development by increasing the chance of international marketing of traditional foods. This study emphasized on the export potential of traditional foods, solutions are provided for more effective use of the export potential that will increase the competitiveness of traditional foods.

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