Agroforestry

A first in Istanbul! Chestnut honey has received geographical indication registration… Ahmet Can The formation, which was established by the chestnut honey producers in Şile district of İstanbul, under the name Şile Agricultural Development Cooperative, applied to the Turkish Patent Institute and registered chestnut honey as the first geographically indicated …

Tomato exports from Turkey in the January-September period of this year increased by 17 percent compared to the same period of the previous year and reached 264 million 771 thousand dollars. According to the information compiled from the data of the Southeastern Anatolian Exporters’ Associations (GAİB), Turkey earned 313 million …

Beekeepers Mustafa Altı and his son Fehmi were kept busy tending to their hives before wildfires tore through a bucolic region of Turkey that makes most of the world’s prized pine honey. Now the Altıs and generations of other honey farmers in Turkey’s Aegean province of Muğla are looking to …

Ramazan Özcan, Chairperson of Malatya Commodity Exchange, stated that both the fruit and the kernel of apricots are exported. Explaining that the apricot kernel creates its own market, Özcan said; Ramazan Özcan “Apricot kernels are one of the most important competitors of American almonds. Therefore, we closely monitor and control …

Harvest has started in the variety of ‘Maraş-18’ walnut, which has a geographical indication registration certificate in Kahramanmaraş province. Maraş-18, which has an annual yield of 20 thousand tonnes and challenges America’s ‘Chandler’ walnut, is exported to Iran, Iraq, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Walnut trees Harvest has started in registered …

A Turkish expert has advised authorities to sell all the trees burned in last month’s wildfires that devastated forests in 53 provinces out of all 81 late July and use the money collected in the fight against future forest fires. According to data from the General Directorate of Forestry, some …

Within the scope of the project carried out by the General Directorate of Forestry (OGM), Turkish Laurel was registered by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TÜRKPATENT) and was entitled to receive a geographical indication. In a written statement from OGM, it was emphasized that laurel creates an important employment …

Press release… Nedim Kalpaklıoğlu, Member of the Board of the Aegean Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters’ Association, said that the beekeeping sector, especially pine honey, has suffered heavy losses in the forest fire disasters that have taken place in the Aegean Region in the recent period in our country. Pine …

Nihat Çelik, Chairperson of the Turkey Sheep and Goat Breeders’ Association (TÜDKİYEB), stated that they want the forest areas to be opened to sheep pasture and said, “Sheep and goats are friends and cleaners of forests. They eat all the weeds, clean the forest and protect it from fire and …