Oil Seed Crops

Sunflower, which has an important place in edible oils and nuts production in Turkey, is counting days to harvest. Sunflower fields were painted yellow in July in Vezirköprü district of Samsun province, where many different agricultural products are grown. Harvest time of the mature sunflower has approached. Sunflower, which will …

Feyzullah Korkut, Chamber of Agricultural Engineers Head of Adana Branch, said that maize should be purchased from the producer at 1.50 TL for sustainability of the production due to the start of maize harvest. Emphasizing that maize is one of the scarce plants that has been cultivated for thousands of …

Harvesting of maize, which was cultivated in February in Kozan district of Adana province, started. Harvesting of maize, one of the most important products of agriculture, has begun in the fertile lands of the Çukurova region. It is expected that 125 thousand tons of maize will be collected from an …

The cultivated acreage in sorghum grain and sorghum silage are increasing in Europe. The choice of variety being a determining success factor, more and more farmers are turning to star-sorghum: the hybrids proposed by European seed companies. In order to meet the market needs, the acreage dedicated to seed production …

First cotton seed was brought together with soil in Menemen Plain of İzmir… Menemen Plain of Izmir, one of Turkey’s major production cotton centres, first cotton seeds of the season met with the soil. Meanwhile being exempt from curfew, farmers continue to produce. One of Turkey’s major cotton production centres, …

Agriculture and Forestry Minister Dr. Bekir Pakdemirli announced that 2019-2020 production season sunflower purchase price has been determined as 2 thousand 500 liras per ton. Pakdemirli, in his written statement, declared the purchase price of sunflower production season 2019-2020. Pakdemirli pointed out that oily sunflower has a share of 75-80 …

Press release… Current information obtained by the Farmer Registration System (ÇKS), it is estimated that 590 thousand hectares of cotton have been planted this season… Accordingly, cotton cultivation areas increased by 14 percent compared to last season (TurkStat 2018 Planted Area data: 518 thousand hectares). This year, during the cotton …

Corn harvest in Adana where it’s produced about 18 per cent of 6 million tons total production in Turkey, is approaching… However according to Cahit İncefikir, Chairman of Seyhan Chamber of Agriculture, due to high input costs of farmers who have partly turned to sunflower, corn production decreased. Meanwhile in …

Turkey Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli “Canola has a considerable added value.” “So I think it is useful to support the production of canola as a drought-resistant product,” he said. Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli, Silivri Municipality Yaşar Kemal Exhibition Hall at the event, headmen and chamber …

Record expectations for cotton production… National Cotton Council Chairman Bertan Balçık, on his press release, “This season cotton will go down in history, I hope this year will have a record in Turkey on condition that good weather conditions in the production. Our biggest goal is to exceed 1 million …