Field Crops

A local farmer named Şerafettin Baba is harvesting his first crop of colorful sweet potatoes in the Torbalı district of western Izmir province as a local venture he hopes will turn into a lucrative business. A pricey imported treat, Turkish farmers like Baba across the country are now growing their …

Press release… Continuing to add value to cotton farmers with the strong collaborations it has established, the Better Cotton Practices Association (IPUD) explained the climate stations and early warning systems it established in the Better Cotton trial fields in cooperation with the European Investment and Development Bank (EBRD) on the …

İsmail Özer, Chaiperson of Söke (a district of Aydın province) TARİŞ Cotton Cooperative, the largest agricultural sales cooperative in Turkey and the Aegean Region, stated that the cotton producer is experiencing its golden years with the announced prices. Indicated that cotton, which is a strategic crop due to its high …

Press release… The Association of Better Cotton Practices (IPUD), which serves to provide common benefits for the relevant parties by expanding sustainable cotton production in Turkey, held its 4th ordinary general assembly. The new board of directors of the association, which implements the Better Cotton Standard and is responsible for …

The latest research from government and non-government water use studies has confirmed that over 25 years cotton growers have almost halved the water needed to grow one bale of cotton. Research from the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI), supported by the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), revealed water …

Press release… The third edition of the European Sorghum Congress is confirmed and will be held in Toulouse, France on October 12th and 13th !Thanks to the commitment of the sorghum sector, sorghum production areas are increasing constantly. Sorghum is a diversification crop with multiple advantages for farmers, which offers many processing …

Press release… The 12th Financial and 13th Elective Ordinary General Assembly Meetings of the National Cotton Council (UPK) were held together on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, hosted by the Izmir Commodity Exchange. At the meeting held with the participation of member organizations and representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and …

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, …

Turkey’s first corn maze, established in the Şile district of Istanbul within the scope of a tourism innovation project supported by the Agriculture Ministry and the Union of Agricultural Chambers and the Association of Travel Agencies (TÜRSAB), has been opened to public visit. Aiming to increase the love of land and agriculture in the …

Şeyhmus Solgun, Chairperson of the Union of Tobacco Production and Marketing Cooperatives, said that they aim to increase tobacco exports, which was 53 thousand tonnes last year, to 60 thousand tonnes this year. Tobacco harvesting in Muş Tobacco harvest has started in Muş (an Eastern Anatolian province of Turkey), which …