Agroforestry

The European Commission declared that it wants to fight deforestation harder as it proposed a legislative package on Wednesday aimed at curbing and tightening the import of commodities such as food and wood from deforested areas, trying to use its trade power to drive sustainability, by requiring companies to prove …

Foreign dependency will end! ‘Strong support for the export attack’… Walnut producers joined forces in Turkey, which imports more than 70 percent of its walnut needs. It was emphasized that with a protectionist policy, both the need for walnuts will be met and they can become an exporter. Turkey is …

Turkey launched an initiative to plant 252 million saplings by the end of the year, the country’s ministry of agriculture and forestry, on Nov. 11. “On Nov. 11, National Afforestation Day, we are becoming a breath for the future,” said the ministry on Twitter. “We breathe life into the world by planting 3 tree saplings …

In 2019, Turkey declared Nov. 11 as National Forestation Day. People everywhere, from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to primary school students took to empty lots to plant saplings. Two years on, planting has gained newfound importance in the aftermath of this summer’s devastating wildfires. Bekir Karacabey After months of preparations, authorities …

More than 100 global leaders pledged late on Monday to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by $19 billion in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests. The joint statement at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow was backed …

Press release… Cahit Doğan Yağcı, Chairperson of the Aegean Furniture Paper and Forest Products Exporters’ Association, said, “When we examine the overall export performance of the three sectors we represent, our exports, which were approximately 4.5 billion in the first 9 months of 2020, rose to 5.8 billion dollars in …

Honey production, which fell 50 percent this year due to drought, decreased by 70 percent in total due to forest fires. Ziya Şahin, Head of the Turkish Beekeepers’ Association (TAB), said that this was reflected in the consumer as a 60 percent hike. It is feared that the reduced production …

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 …