Agriculture and Forestry Minister Dr. Bekir Pakdemirli announced that 2019-2020 production season sunflower purchase price has been determined as 2 thousand 500 liras per ton. Pakdemirli, in his written statement, declared the purchase price of sunflower production season 2019-2020. Pakdemirli pointed out that oily sunflower has a share of 75-80 …

Export target of 900 million dollars in citrus… Indispensable in the winter months and vitamin C store citrus products yield in the Aegean Region in 2019/20 season is estimated to be 442 thousand 349 tons. Expressing that the product quality is good enough, Chairman of Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable …

Plant Based Meat Market 85 Billion Dollars in 2030s… A Swiss investment firm UBS estimates that the 4.6 billion dollars plant-based protein and meat market in 2018 will reach 85 billion dollars by 2030 (1). The same source adds that the plant-based milk market could reach 37.5 billion dollars for …

TEMA (The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats): At least 195,000 trees have been cut down! The TEMA Foundation, on behalf of the 500,000 signatories supporting the process, urges that the number of trees cut for the Kirazlı Gold Mine in Çanakkale …

Butchers Federation of Turkey Vice Chairman Osman Yardımcı said that the flesh of sacrificials needs to disassemble through the hands of experts, so 15 percent of the sacrificial meat is going to waste every year. This means that thousands of animals.” Yardımcı said: “Unexperinced and novice butchers are on the …

This is a summary of the report prepared by Chamber of Agricultural Engineers (ZMO) just before the Feast of Qurban in Turkey… · Officially in Turkey’s history, firstly in 2010 and then 2011, 2017 and 2018 sacrificials were imported. · In 2018, 866 thousand cattle and 2 million 682 thousand …

An international cotton festival will be organized in Şanlıurfa… Advisory board meeting was held for the cotton festival planned to be organized in Akçakale county of Şanlıurfa province. Deputy Governor Ufuk Akıl chaired the meeting and exchanged information about the planned festival. Akıl, after the meeting, said that they made …

Rize Commodity Exchange (RTB) Chairman Mehmet Erdoğan said that tea lovingly consumed in Turkey where the most consumption per capita in the world… Stating that tea consumption has increased in Turkey, Erdoğan also noted, “There is a stock of around 70 thousand tons in the store of ÇAYKUR transferred from …

The global tea industry has been registering tremendous growth. The overall increase in domestic consumption has been driven by demographic growth, faster urbanization and rising incomes and standard of living in the emerging and developing economies. Persistence Market Research (PMR) expects the global market to expand at 5 percent at …

Turkey wasting 15 percent of national income… A report, released recently, pointed out that Turkey had wasted about 15 percent of the national income, according to its data for 2018 it amounted to 555 billion liras. This calculation was made both from the main sources of waste such as food, …