Farming

Glyphosate use must be curbed, but prohibition may have adverse effect… WUR researchers Violette Geissen and Pieter de Wolf stress that the environmental risks of using chemical pesticides must be reduced as much as possible. However, whether the available alternatives are better for humans, the environment, soil life and the …

Press release… In the first month of the 2023/2024 hazelnut export season, which started on 1 September 2023; hazelnut exports from Türkiye reached 24 thousand 344 tonnes and 151 million 780 thousand dollars of foreign currency inflow was provided in return.Mehmet Cirav, Chairman of the Hazelnut and Hazelnut Products Sector …

Press release… 1.5 billion dollars of exports from Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) in September… September exports of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations were recorded as 1 billion 515 million dollars with an increase of 1 percent. While the members of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations exported 13 billion 688 million dollars in …

Seed sector orientated towards the Balkans… Balkan Seed Workshop was organised in Edirne by the Balkan Seed Growers Association hosted by Trakya University with the support of Turkish Sub-Union of Seed Industrialists and Producers (TSÜAB). Stating that Türkiye has always been in close relations with the Balkan geography, TSÜAB President …

Potatoes are the fourth most important staple crop in the world, representing some 19 million hectares of production. In Belgium, they’re an economic powerhouse that has seen incredible growth in the past 25 years. In 1995, Belgian factories processed some 500,000 tonnes of potatoes. Last year, that number rose to …

Hazelnut export revenue of over 2 billion dollars is targeted… Dursun Oğuz Gürsoy, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Black Sea Hazelnut and Products Exporters’ Association (KFMİB), stated that their first target is to export 280 thousand tonnes of hazelnuts by the end of the season and …

Cereals and pulses are in the first place in exports… Celal Kadooğlu, President of the Southeastern Anatolia Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Exporters’ Association, said that the most pasta, wheat flour and vegetable oil were exported from the Southeast. Celal Kadooğlu Celal Kadooğlu stated that the decline in exports …

Press release… Organised by the Fruit Juice Industry Association (MEYED), which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, the 12th edition of the “Juiceful Istanbul Summit”, the most important international annual meeting of the sector, was held in Istanbul. Held on 21 September 2023 at Radisson Collection Hotel Vadi Istanbul, the …

27/09/2023 First-ever FAO Global Conference on Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization opens in Rome… Director-General QU Dongyu calls for sustainable, inclusive mechanization to transform agrifood systems… Rome – Mechanization can be a powerful force for change, but only if it is environmentally sustainable and leaves no one behind, especially women and smallholder farmers, …

Yanmar, the world’s leading Japanese engine manufacturer, chose Izmir’s district Torbalı for investment. The factory, which is the company’s second production facility in Türkiye, is planned to assemble 35 tractors per day. The facility will increase the number of personnel from 76 in the first stage to 125 in a …