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Cereal, meat and sugar prices down in August, while oil and dairy prices increase… Food prices in the world decreased 1.1% year-on-year in August and almost the same from July 2024, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on Friday.
 Food prices also decreased by 24.7% from their peak …

Cereal prices worldwide have been on a downward trend for some time. This is the result of the interaction of several factors on a global scale. Let’s take a closer look at the details… While the prices of many global commodities such as cocoa, sugar and olive oil are rising, …

August 30, 2024 First came wildfires that scorched sugar cane fields. Now, the worst drought in more than four decades is threatening coffee and soybean crops in Brazil. Extreme drought in the Amazon From May through August, some key agriculture areas faced the driest weather since 1981, according to natural …

In traditional chocolate production, after the grains of the cocoa plant are removed, the rest is utilised as waste. However, research at the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology has discovered that this waste part is also incredibly useful. The beans taken to produce cocoa are prepared as cocoa and then …

Agriculture was a hot topic in the run-up to the European Parliament election, with parties making promises of better pay for farmers, a tougher stance on trade and less red tape on subsidies.   Notably, the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) crowned itself as the “farmers’ party,” and even European Commission President …

Press release… In a period when agricultural products, especially in Türkiye and Mediterranean countries, are adversely affected due to climate change, the countdown has started for Türkiye’s export project Interfresh Eurasia Fair. Murat Özer Türkiye wants to get a share from the fruit and vegetable trade, which is expected to …

Professor Dr. Şerafettin Aşık, Lecturer of Ege University (EÜ) Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation, announced that a huge saving is achieved with the use of artificial intelligence methods in agricultural irrigation and reported that in their project study, 80 percent savings were achieved in irrigation with …

The “strategic dialogue on the future of agriculture” has entered its final stages.   The 29 food sector representatives invited to the roundtable, set up by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to “tackle polarisation” in the sector, will discuss a draft version of the dialogue’s conclusions next week.  Ursula von der Leyen Previous meetings …

Şenli family, who are engaged in beekeeping at the foot of Şeytan (Devil) Mountains in Karlıova district of Eastern Anatolia’s Bingöl province, won a gold medal in the competition organised in London, the capital of England, with the honey they produced. Bingöl honey is targeted for export with the European …