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 …

Eskişehir Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry Dr. Emine Sever said that Eskişehir ranks second across Turkey in seedbed sunflower production. Dr. Sever visited the cultivation areas and the purchasing centre during the harvest of seedbed sunflower belonging to a private company in Çifteler district. Provincial Director of Agriculture and …

Press release… Selışık: The need for agricultural production will increase due to population growth Dr. Ayşegül Selışık, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations) Deputy Representative of Turkey, emphasized that the need for agricultural production will increase in the coming years and for this, more efficient production techniques …

Press release… Akhisar (a district of Manisa province) Commodity Exchange Chairman Alper Alhat said that 400 thousand producers wanted VAT of the olive oil retail to be reduced from 8 percent to 1 percent. Reminding that some suppliers, who took advantage of the explosion of demand in the first wave …

Agricultural lands owned by the treasury will be allocated to farmers without land or without sufficient land for 10 years. The first year rental value of the lands will be 1.5 percent of the current value. The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization published the National Real Estate Communiqué on the …