Press release… Ankara – 18 June 2020 – Union of Turkish Agricultural Chambers (TZOB) Chairman Şemsi Bayraktar, stating that during the combating process with Covid-19, farmers had to wait the transactions of Farmers Registry System (ÇKS) and said, “ÇKS application period should be extended which supposed to be ended by …

15 JUN 2020 More than a third of the fish stocks around the world are being overfished and the problem is particularly acute in developing countries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated. The FAO said in a biennial report that tackling the issue would require several measures …

Press release… The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has decided to ban 16 pesticides used to prevent disease and pests harming the product. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), some of the pesticides considered as one of the most important public and environmental health problems contain “extremely dangerous”, “highly …

Emphasizing the need to increase support in returning to rural areas so as to rise food production and agricultural lands, TESK (Craftsmen and Artisans’ Confederation of Turkey) President Bendevi Palandöken said, “The importance of food products, vegetables and fruits has been understood in the early stages of the pandemic process. …

Exports of citrus fruits from Turkey to Russia increased 47 percent from January to May, compared with the same period last year, reaching 118 million dollars (TL 812 million), according to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat). A total of 197,000 tons of citrus products, including orange, lemon, grapefruit …

The U.S. Commercial Service’s Global Advanced Manufacturing Team and Europe Team invite American exporters to join us for “virtual coffee chats” with our U.S. Embassy colleagues across Europe. These informal video discussions are through Microsoft Teams. Each session will cover the current status of the advanced manufacturing sector in the region and …

Finnish agriculture has a struggle with profitability, and this has been going on at least since 2007, when we happened to have domestic products, while a global undersupply on basic products, mostly grain, was a fact. One of the biggest challenges to get a better profitability should be higher prices …

Due to COVID-19, the beloved self-serve travel perk is no more. Here’s what you can expect to wake up to instead There’s a particular pleasure to the travel ritual of waking up in crisp hotel sheets, meandering downstairs, and finding a fully stocked breakfast buffet splayed out before you. Then there’s …

The World Day of Combating Desertification and Drought, which is celebrated every year by the United Nations on June 17, focuses on the link between consumption and land this year. In this important day, which draws attention with the theme of sustainable production and consumption, TEMA Foundation (The Turkish Foundation …

Turkey is an agricultural and animal production hub in the region and even for countries beyond, with its high production capacity and food security standards, according to university agriculturalist Orhan Özçatalbaş. The country has the largest agricultural revenue in Europe and is second on a global scale, the professor at Akdeniz …