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Global cereal production in 2021 is forecast to reach  2 788 million tonnes, up by 0.7 percent from the year before but below July’s expectations, according to FAO’s new Cereal Supply and Demand Brief, also released recently. World wheat output is now expected to contract by 0.7 percent to 769.5 million …

Moscow extended an embargo on foods from the United States and the European Union until December 2022, in response to several countries’ sanctions on Russia, according to a decree by President Vladimir Putin published on Monday. The import ban on dairy products, meat, fruit and vegetables, introduced in August 2014, …

Press release… Aegean food exporters, who process the flavours grown in the plains, mountains, forests and seas of Turkey and reach billions of people all over the world and catch an annual export figure of 5.5 billion dollars, are trying to increase their sustainability competencies in food exports with the …

Agriculture Minister Dr. Bekir Pakdemirli stated that thanks to the awareness created with the “Save Your Food” campaign, households have economised 100 million dollars. Speaking at the session titled “Working together to achieve the zero hunger goal: Successful projects implemented by the Ministries of Agriculture” at the G20 Agriculture Ministers …

Press release… The export ban imposed in December 2020 due to tomato brown fruit wrinkle virus, tomato spotted wilt virus and pepino mosaic virus in the export of fresh tomatoes and peppers from Antalya and İzmir provinces to Russia has been lifted. The sector also wants the quota on tomato …

Turkey announced the elimination of tariffs on some pulses and grains. According to a PresidentialDecree published in the Official Gazette on September 8, 2021, the import tariffs on chickpeas, lentils,and wheat, rye, barley, oats, and sorghum (only seed for sewing) are reduced to zero until December 31,2021. Barley, Oat, Rye, …

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 …

17 September 2021, Ankara  – A stakeholders meeting was held yesterday to launch the fourth phase of the Project: “Promoting sustainable employment and income generation opportunities for Syrian refugees and host communities”, funded by the Government of Japan. The objective of the meeting was to provide implementing partners with necessary guidelines …

A Turkish group of companies has designed a container farming system that enables the cultivation of all kinds of crops, regardless of climate and weather or amount of daylight, amid growing concerns over the course of climate change-related uncertainties. The container plant factory is equipped with systems that have all …