THE GLOBAL WINDOW OF TURKISH FOOD AND AGRICULTURE The Global Window of Turkish Food and Agriculture Sector

November, 2026… Türkiye is expanding its firefighting technology beyond fire detection by developing drones capable of dropping water directly onto forest fires, Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı has unveiled. “We already use them to spot fires, but we’re talking about active firefighting here,” Yumaklı told a group of journalists …

November, 2026… Professor Dr. Mustafa Kasım Karahocagil Researchers in Türkiye’s central province of Kırşehir have developed three drought-tolerant wheat varieties to raise yields and reduce disease losses for farmers working in dry conditions. Kırşehir Ahi Evran University Rector Professor Dr. Mustafa Kasım Karahocagil told Anadolu Agency the Faculty of Agriculture’s …

November, 2026… Türkiye was the world’s eighth-largest cotton producer, according to 2023 data from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), but its overall seed cotton output is expected to fall 38 percent year-over-year to 1.2 million metric tonnes in 2026, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat). Drought and …