Farming

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 …

Lavender has started to be harvested which has become widespread rapidly in Denizli in recent years… Lavender that used to be only 3-4 decares in 2015 and now exceeds 1000 decares, contributes to the economy both in terms of production and tourism. Lavender which is growing in a thousand decare …

Target market in olive oil USA… The Turkish olive oil sector continues its promotional activities in the US market to increase its exports to the United States, which is by far the leading market in its exports and imports 350,000 tons of olive oil annually. Aegean Olive and Olive Oil …

Ahmet Dündar, Chairman of the Ornamental Plants Producers Sub-Union (SÜSBİR), said that 33 percent increase in the exports of trees and shrubs to EU countries was achieved in 2018. Dündar said: “Our tree and shrub exports to the EU accounted for 45 percent of our total exports last year. There …

‘Chios’ (gum) attack from amazons of Urla… Urla Mayor Burak Oğuz, accepted Women’s Cooperative founded by seven women in the neighborhood of Gülbahçe (Urla, İzmir). After listening to the project of President Semra Yıldız and members of the cooperative, named “Mastic Gum Production”, “We will be trying to do our …

Özkan Kayacan: Turkey is the world leader in dried apricots production TAGEM (Agricultural Research and Policies Directorate) Manager Özkan Kayacan said that Turkey’s share in world production of dried apricots is about 63 percent; Turkey, a leader in production and export of dried apricots. TAGEM Manager Özkan Kayacan, in his …

Gum drops from Çeşme! (literally means fountain, a county of Izmir) Çeşme Municipality has ambitious targets for ‘Gum Trees’. Gum harvest, grown only in Turkey and Chios island of Greece, arranged by Çeşme Municipality as to give the value of this unprecedented product that it deserves. After the opening speech, …

Turkish people like eating potatoes… Annual consumption per person is 48 kilograms… According to a written statement from the Ministry, annually producing 4.5 million tonnes of potatoes are made in Turkey and consumed 48 kilograms of potatoes per person. Along with the studies carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture …