To overcome the difficulties in agricultural quarantine inspection and approval processes for exports, a delegation consisting of SÜSBİR and ministry officials organized a technical visit. They held face-to-face meetings with some producers around İzmir and explained the problems they were experiencing with examples.

Türkiye's ornamental plant exports totaled $141.065 million in 2024. By the end of 2025, this figure had risen to $159.926 million. However, there is no noticeable growth in Turkey's Landscape and Ornamental Plants Sector. Producers are aware of the decrease in domestic demand. Clearly, due to the declining domestic demand, producers have achieved some success, albeit with difficulty, in their search for foreign markets.

However, the increase in exports occurred despite some difficulties created by plant health and agricultural quarantine practices. In particular, the measures taken by the Ministry of Agriculture due to the rejection of agricultural products such as fruits and vegetables have automatically affected landscape and ornamental plants as well. Yet, live plants used in landscaping are not edible agricultural products. The increased agricultural quarantine and approval processes, which were shorter in previous years, and the subsequent sampling and inspection, are creating friction between producers and importers and slowing down exports.

While seeking solutions to the problems created by this practice, SÜSBİR organized a technical visit on the subject with a delegation that included Erhan Demir, Head of the Plant and Plant Products Border Control Department of the General Directorate of Food and Control of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Coordinator Şehriban Gören, and Ömer Yaşa, Director of the İzmir Agricultural Quarantine Directorate.

The bilateral delegations met face-to-face with some producers in the İzmir region. The producers explained the difficulties they faced in exporting to the technical delegation with examples.

The technical visit, which took place on January 5-6 and included SÜSBİR Chairman Ahmet Dündar and board members, was limited to Queen Tarım Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. in Çandarlı-Izmir, Çobanoğlu Süs Bitkileri from Ödemiş, Onur Peyzaj, Armağan Çiçekçilik from Bayındır, and Aratlı Botanik due to time constraints for ministry officials. It is hoped that some practices will change as a result of the technical visit.