Farming

Sustainability is the word that will define this decade – unless the pandemic lasts longer than expected and claims the top spot – so it is a worrying day when the world has to mark how unsustainable it really, with humanity passing an unnerving milestone on July 28 after consuming …

Zhang Jinpeng decided to return to his hometown in rural Shandong province to be nearer his family. Sensing an opportunity in agricultural e-commerce, he started an online store on Pinduoduo, China’s largest agriculture platform, to sell garlic. Zhang’s hometown, Jinxiang County in southwestern Shandong province, is famous for its garlic. A …

Press release… The spices of thousands of dishes cooked on world tables are sent by Aegean exporters. In the first half of 2022, while Turkiye exported 105.7 million dollars of spices, exporters who are members of the Aegean Exporters’ Association realized the majority of 67 million dollars of this export. …

In the first 10 months of the 2021/2022 hazelnut export season, which started on September 1, 2021 and end on August 31, 2022, the hazelnut exported from the country has reached 306,653 tonnes and a foreign exchange inflow of 1 Billion 810 Million 72 thousand 668 dollars has been provided. …

The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) has been established as part of a landmark Türkiye-brokered deal to resume grain exports from Ukraine… Türkiye has formally opened a joint coordination centre for Ukrainian grain exports under an Ankara-brokered deal aimed at resuming shipments for the first time since the start of Russia’s …

The Turkish private sector will be engaged in farming activities in foreign countries, where private companies will be the decision-makers on agricultural investments abroad and the Turkish state will not lease farmlands abroad, the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has said in a statement. The ministry’s duty is to provide private companies with …

Türkiye’s tropical fruit exports exhibited an 85 percent increase last year from 2020 to amount to $13 million, according to a trade group. Hayrettin Uçak In the first half of 2022, exports already reached $7.9 million, said Hayrettin Uçak, the head of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, (EYMSİB) adding that the …

Last Friday, Türkiye, the UN, Russia, and Ukraine signed a landmark deal to resume grain exports through three Ukrainian ports after months of blockage due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, now in its sixth month. Under the deal, the joint coordination centre was set up in Istanbul to carry out inspections …

The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC), established as part of a landmark deal to resume grain exports from Ukraine, has started work in Istanbul, Russia’s defense ministry said on Tuesday. The center will be officially opened in a ceremony on Wednesday, Turkiye’s Defense Ministry said separately on Tuesday. Ukraine, Russia, Turkiye …

Turkiye is “optimistic” that a deal could be reached soon on resuming Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea, its top diplomat said Thursday. Talks between Turkiye, Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations about a Black Sea corridor are “going well so far,” Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told public broadcaster …