“The penalty for illegal tobacco trade will positively affect our exports” Ömer Umur, Chairman of the Board of Aegean Tobacco Exporters’ Association, said, “The application, which came into force on July 1 and imposed a prison sentence for ‘the sale of macaron or leaf cigarette paper with minced tobacco stuffed’, …

Press release… Evaluating the first 6 months of exports in 2020 İzmir Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Director Mustafa Özen said, “Our province has been exporting many products such as vegetable products, animal products, aquatic products, ornamental plants and seedlings. When we look at the first 6 months of 2019, approximately …

HEKTAŞ purchased the production and sales right of Pehlivan07 hybrid silage corn variety from TAGEM, the General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. HEKTAŞ General Manager Levent Ortakçıer stated that they focus on seed breeding in the domestic market. Levent Ortakçıer, OYAK Agriculture …

Ankara – Union of Turkish Agricultural Chambers (TZOB) Chairman Şemsi Bayraktar said that struggle with waste should start in the field and the waste took place during the production process is as much important as that of consumption stage. In his statement, Bayraktar noted that the food waste reaches to …

TESK President Palandöken; 7 million breads daily wasted! Stating that 7 million breads are wasted every day, Turkey Tradesmen and Artisans’ Confederation (TESK) President Bendevi Palandöken said, “Thus 3 billion liras go to waste in a year too. That’s why we need to get bread so as we can eat …

Olive and olive oil exports increased by 21 percent in June compared to the same period of last year and reached 19 million 60 thousand dollars. According to data from Turkey’s Aegean Exporters’ Associations, exports of table olives in June with an increase of 44 percent compared to the same …

Turkey Pasta Industrialists’ Association Chairman of the Board Abdülkadir Külahçıoğlu said that pasta exports exceeded 360 million dollars in the first half of the year by increasing 25 percent. Külahçıoğlu said, “Actually our target for exports was 10 percent. But now the growth surpasses our expectations.” Külahçıoğlu told the Anadolu …

Turkey’s state-run aid body provided support to Mongolia’s agriculture, the agency said in a written statement on Thursday. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) in cooperation with the Mongolia Agricultural University Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Biotechnology carried out an agricultural project in the country, it said. As part …

İlyas Edip Sevinç, Chairman of the Black Sea Hazelnut and Products Exporters’ Association (KFMİB), stated that the export made between 1 September 2019 and 30 June 2020 in hazelnut has already reached 311 thousand 499 tons by breaking the record of all times. İlyas Edip Sevinç said in his written …

By Owen Roberts President, International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) Agricultural media has always been a reliable source of information for farmers. Although agriculture is a huge industry, the media community that serves it is too small for unreliable sources to flourish for long. With the COVID-19 pandemic, I expect …