Korea is facing a number of challenges in the efforts to develop hi-tech agriculture and smart farming. The small farmland sizes, lack of cooperation and lack of entrepreneurship between the stakeholders are amongst these challenges. Although the ambition of the government is to modernize the industry with new policies, the …

Press release… Hayrettin Uçak, Chairman of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, said that ‘Motherland of the Seedless Table Sultana Grape’ is the Anatolian lands. Hayrettin Uçak said, “55 thousand farming families of sultana grapes, regarded as a healing store, produce in vineyards of more than 1 million …

A new project in animal husbandry is being implemented with the partnership of Turkey Cattle Breeders’ Association and Ziraat Bank. Turkey Cattle Breeders’ Association (TDSYMB) Chairman Kamil Özcan said that the project would be a milestone for the livestock sector in Turkey. Kamil Özcan said, “Currently, we have started supplying …

The Turkish agriculture sector’s annual average growth rate is much higher than its OECD and EU peers, with 2.7 percent in the last 10 years, the treasury and finance minister has said. “Our agricultural export figure has increased to $19.4 billion from $3.7 billion in 2002. Red meat production has increased from …

Ferhat Pişmaf, the Marketing Group Head of Agricultural Banking at Ziraat Bank, told Anadolu Agency (AA) correspondent that the amount of loans they provided for agricultural production in the 2010-2020 period exceeded TL 258 billion and the number of producers they made loans surpassed 4.5 million people. Pişmaf said, “As …

According to the Federation of Food and Drink Industry Associations of Turkey (TGDF) Digital Data Panel prepared by Agrimetre, in the first 7 months of 2020, the agriculture, food and beverage industry realized 11.37 billion dollars of exports and 9.26 billion dollars of imports. According to the foreign trade data …

73 million dollars worth of fishery products exported from the Eastern Black Sea in 8 months According to the data of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB), from the Eastern Black Sea Region in January-August 2020, 33.555 tons of fishery products were sold to 29 countries. During the period …

Press release… “Good Life Brands” awards, focused on the lifestyle and consumption habits of consumers by the Nielsen Research Centre, conferred on Pınar Milk (Pınar Süt) with the “Good Life Brand” award in the Milk and Dairy Products Industry. Pınar Milk (Süt) Chairwoman of the Board of Directors İdil Yiğitbaşı …

The Turkish cotton crop for marketing year (MY) 2020/21 is now estimated at 350,000 hectares and 615,000 metric tonnes (MT) (2.825 million bales). Low yields, unattractive cotton prices, inflated costs, uncertainty created by COVID-19 and better returns from alternative crops in addition to not enough subsidies from Goverment of Turkey …

Marmaris (a district of Muğla province) Agricultural Development Cooperative (MARKO) was established with the contributions of Marmaris Municipality. Through the cooperative, both agricultural production will be promoted and products unique to Marmaris will be introduced to the world. An important step has been taken for agricultural development in Marmaris, whose …