Farming

Osmaniye Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Sağlam said that despite its exhausting harvest, okra is one of the highest yielding alternative products. Sağlam said that a decare area planted okra’s turnover of about 10 thousand liras. After deduction of the cost which is around 5 thousand liras, the …

Growing on the shores of Karakaya Dam Lake in Baskil district of Elazığ, fresh apricots, which are in high demand from the exporting companies with their distinct aroma and taste, increased the export share by 100 percent compared to last year and made producers happy. Apricot varieties such as Hacıhaliloğlu, …

Hazelnut Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Union (FİSKOBİRLİK) Chairman Lütfi Bayraktar said that hazelnut price has been announced early and the state has decided to intervene in the market on behalf of producers… Pointing out that all the actors in the market will take a position according to this attitude of the …

Pakdemirli: We will not victimize seedless raisin producers in 2019/20 season All parties of seedless raisin of which is Turkey the world leader, farmers, traders and exporters came together with Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Dr. Bekir Pakdemirli at the Aegean Exporters Association in Izmir. Producers want 10 TL for …

Approximately 20 thousand tons of tomatoes produced every year in Iğdır (An Eastern Anatolian province situated on Armenia border) are offered for sale in the provinces of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia. Due to its micro climate and geographical conditions, many products can be grown in Iğdır region, as well as …

ÇAYKUR (State Owned Tea Enterprise) Deputy General Manager Yusuf Ziya Alim said that they determined 2019 year organic tea difference fee as 2 liras 90 kuruş, for the base price 5 liras 80 kuruş… Yusuf Ziya Alim said, “We have already purchased over 136 thousand tons of tea in the …

Akhisar calls for support for olives… There exist 190 million olive trees in Turkey. Akhisar, a county of Manisa province, hosts 14 millions of total by itself. Stating that they demand support for the increase in production of olives, Akhisar Commodity Exchange Chairman Alper Alhat said, “We have been trying …

Harvest activities in Malatya, home to 8 million out of the 17 million apricot trees in Turkey keep going. AK Party Malatya Deputy Öznur Çalık, said in a statement, “Apricot is very important for the provincial economy, this fruit brings an annual income of 300 million dollars.” Stating that apricot …

The green revolution of the 1960s, which ended the world food shortages, created the opportunity for the organic agriculture market to flourish in the 1980s. Its emergence is based on a logic that cannot be rejected by anyone. Organic agriculture started due to the health and environmental problems caused by …

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 …