Farming

Press release… Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EİB) Vice Coordinator Birol Celep said that agriculture sector will export 5.5 billion dollars Emphasizing that they have brought 5 billion 338 million dollars of foreign currency to Turkey in the sectors of aquaculture and animal products, fresh fruit, vegetable and products, dried fruits, tobacco, …

Bayer has lost a third appeal against U.S. court verdicts that awarded damages to customers blaming their cancers on use of its glyphosate-based weedkillers. A California appeals court late on Monday upheld an $86 million verdict that found German Bayer was responsible for a couple’s cancer. They had used Bayer’s …

Cereal exports surged by 17 percent in 7 months… Haluk Okutur, Chairperson of the Board of İHBİR, said that İHBİR’s exports in the first 7 months of 2021, covering the January-July period, amounted to 1 billion 289 million dollars with an increase of 16.97 percent. In the statement made by …

Nestlé’s first dairy farm that is earmarked to reach net-zero carbon emissions in 2023, is on track to achieving its targets. The Skimmelkrans farm, located in George in the Western Cape, produces some of the company’s nutritious products such as Nestlé MILO and Nestlé Nespray. “Producing quality milk is crucial …

Press release… Dried fig exports run to 250 million dollars… Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association mobilized to improve the quality of dried figs as known the fruit of paradise, which earns Turkey 250 million dollars annually and to prevent the formation of aflatoxin and ochratoxin. Aegean exporters distributed …

Press release… Hüseyin Arslan, Chairman of the Board of the Mediterranean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters’ Association (AHBİB), announced that they realized exports worth 106.1 million dollars in July, an increase of 27 percent compared to the same period of the previous year. Stating that they evaluated 142 thousand …

There are currently no fires that threaten any settlements in Turkey, the country’s agriculture and forestry minister said on Aug. 8.  Speaking to reporters in the southwestern Muğla province, Bekir Pakdemirli said: “The overall situation regarding all forest fires in Muğla is getting better.” Bekir Pakdemirli He said 16 forest fires broke out …

Turkey’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports exceeded the 3 billion dollar threshold over the last 12 months… Hayrettin Uçak, the chairperson of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association (EYMSİB), in a written statement, said the exports were worth 1.3 billion dollars in the January-July period of 2020, but …

Press release… Saffet Kalyoncu, Chairperson of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Associations (DKİB), in his written statement, said that exports from the Eastern Black Sea Region Trabzon, Rize, Artvin and Gümüşhane provinces, which are under the jurisdiction of their Secretariat General, amounted to 842,641,317 USD in the January-July 2021 period, …

Southeastern Anatolia Region, which meets 29.1 percent of Turkey’s exports of cereals, pulses, oilseeds and products, achieved an export of 1 billion 214 million 635 thousand dollars in the first half of the year. Mahsum Altunkaya, Chairman of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM) Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Sector …