Farming

Increasing biodiversity is the new kid on the block for sustainability professionals. But solving it will require investing in the old guard that we keep overlooking. February 9, 2023 Biodiversity is poised to become this year’s biggest sustainability trend. Following the “Paris agreement for biodiversity” reached at COP15 in Montreal …

Press release… Stating that dried figs are produced on more than 7 million trees in an area of 37 thousand hectares in Aydın province, Aydın Agriculture and Forestry Provincial Director Ahmet Öktem underlined that 31 percent of the dried fig production areas in Aydın are organic farming. Sharing the knowledge …

UN considers millet production as a solution to food crisis… The United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) drew attention to the need for the world to focus on millet agriculture within the framework of the search for a solution to the drought and food crisis in the world. …

Press release… Cengiz Balık: We must pay attention to pesticides so that we do not reduce our share in existing markets! Cengiz Balık, Vice Chairman of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, stated that 2022 was a difficult year, but 2023 will be an even more difficult year. …

Press release… Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association (EKMMİB) brought together all parties of the sector at the “Dried Fig Board” meeting in Aegean province of Aydın, the capital of dried fig production, for the sustainable export of dried figs where Türkiye is the world leader in production and …

Agriculture is a major contributor to climate change. But it is also part of the solution. Smallholder farmers are key to reducing emissions as they tend not to use harmful fertilizers or machinery powered by fossil fuels. That’s why, at COP27, IFAD and the United States launched the Global Methane Pledge partnership to …

Tyne Morgan: The interest from outside investors has propelled farmland prices higher over the past year, but even with the rapid run-up in prices, experts say we aren’t in the middle of a farmland price bubble… For those in agriculture, owning farmland has long been viewed as a symbol of status and …

Press release… Aegean fresh fruit, vegetable and products exporters set an export target of 1 billion 400 million dollars in the 100th Anniversary of the Republic. Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association (EYMSİB), which broke export records for 5 years in a row by delivering the flavours produced in …

In the export season, which started on August 1, 2022, of the geographical indication registered product in the EU, 49,355 thousand tons of dried apricots were sold in 6 months. Malatya Commodity Exchange Chairman Ramazan Özcan said, “We are faced with a table that can generate 460 million dollars in …