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Press release… Özkan Kamiloğlu, Chairman of the Board of Uludağ Fruit and Vegetable Products Exporters’ Association (UMSMİB), said that the export of fruit and vegetable products increased by more than 100 percent in the first half of June. Stating that the performance of exports in this 15-day period, realized by …

Mustafa Ertan Atalar, Diyabakır Provincial Manager of Agriculture and Forestry who visited Sur district, participated in the wheat harvest, made examinations in the field and evaluations about the yield of this year. Atalar, who participated in the wheat harvest on the combine harvester, evaluated the yield and crop quality of …

Mehmet Ali Işık, Vice President of Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, said that Turkish Grain Board (TMO) should continue to be a regulator in raisin industry. Sharing the information that the price of raisins is over 2 dollars in 2019-20 season, Mehmet Ali Işık stated, “TMO should continue …

Şanlıurfa Province Agricultural Consultants want to take part in DİTAP… Şanlıurfa Agricultural Consultants made a statement regarding their request to take part in the ‘Digital Agriculture Market’ online platform, a new era in agriculture. Şanlıurfa Agricultural Consultants stated that they want to take place in Digital Agriculture Market (DİTAP). Making …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

A warning came to farmers to maintain the fertility of the soil. Erzincan Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry warned the farmers not to burn stubble and reminded that burning the stubble was 73,68 TL administrative fines per decare. Warning farmers not to burn stubble… The Governor’s Communiqué on the …

Turkey Seed Growers Association (TÜRKTOB) Chairman Savaş Akcan said, “The pandemic has revealed the importance of self-sufficiency and being nationalised. What if the protectionism policies increase worldwide and those countries do not sell? Our work becomes more difficult with the farmers, who are trapped in production with wrong agricultural policies …