Field Crops

While the world’s leading cotton producers expect a record decrease in yield due to the drought, drought has entered the agenda of the textile industry in Türkiye. It is stated that while there has been a contraction in apparel and textile orders since June, producer countries have started to keep …

Drought is impacting cotton production, posing additional risks to Türkiye’s large textile and garment industry which has seen weaker demand since June, according to people from the industry. Cotton The decline in output and drought is impacting Türkiye, which is the world’s fifth-largest producer of textile products, said Ahmet Öksüz, the chair of …

Harvest season has started in Turkiye’s northeastern province of Gümüşhane, which has the country’s first gluten-free flour source, buckwheat processing factory. This year’s harvest put a smile on the face of the farmers, as the harvest started with a combine harvester in the area of ​​approximately one thousand decares planted …

Grains such as wheat, barley and oats in Turkiye’s eastern Anatolian province of Erzurum surged by one hundred percent compared to the previous year. It is expected that around 300 thousand tonnes of wheat will be harvested in Erzurum. Erzurum Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry Osman Akar stated that …

Poor rainfall in major rice-growing regions of India has triggered fears of export restrictions on rice, too, after wheat and sugar. Looking to control domestic prices, India had in May banned wheat and sugar exports amid a scorching summer and a global supply shortage. Being the world’s largest exporter of …

Malaysia is considering importing wheat from Turkey to diversify its food sources amid the worldwide battle with soaring prices and supply bottlenecks. Ismail Sabri Yaakob The issue is expected to be widely discussed during Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s four-day trip to Turkey. Yaakob, who arrived in the country …

Planting area expanded in Sivas, the seed centre of triticale… The cultivation area of ​​triticale seed, which is obtained from a hybrid of wheat and rye and grown as an alternative crop to fill the roughage deficit in Sivas province, has been expanded. Sivas Ulaş Agricultural Enterprise, affiliated to the …

In a recent hearing in the Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Commission of the Brazilian Congress, researchers from Embrapa estimated that Brazil could become self sufficient in wheat production within 10 years by expanding wheat production into the cerrado regions of central and northeastern Brazil. Wheat is the only major crop …

Press release… Umur: “Virginia and burley tobacco production will increase” Sharing the knowledge that 30 percent of the tobacco to be used in tobacco products produced in Turkiye will gradually have to be grown in the country, Aegean Tobacco Exporters’ Chairperson Ömer Celal Umur stated that there will be an …