Farming

Press release… BioFach, the world’s largest organic food and natural products fair, which focuses on the spread of ecological producers and products, was held for the 31st time in Nuremberg, Germany, between 26-29 July 2022. Turkiye’s national participation organization in Biofach Organic Food Products Fair was held for the 25th …

Destined for Lebanon, Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni to make stopover in Istanbul for joint inspection… ANKARA The first grain-laden ship that departed the Ukrainian port of Odesa for Lebanon under a deal to unblock Ukraine’s agricultural exports reached the Black Sea entrance of Istanbul Strait on Tuesday.  Sierra Leone-flagged …

Press release… 46 PERCENT OF FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLE EXPORT FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN… Ferhat Gürüz, Chairman of the Board of the Mediterranean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, announced that Turkiye’s fresh fruit and vegetable exports reached the level of 1.45 billion dollars in the first half of 2022 and …

ATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and leaders of countries thanked Turkiye as they welcomed the news of the first ship carrying grain departing from Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa on Monday. Jens Stoltenberg “I welcome the first shipment of Ukrainian grain from Odessa under the UN-brokered deal. I …

Agriculture is one of the few industries that fully utilizes all four components of production — land, labour, capital, and organization/management – while also consuming the most scarce resource, water. Several constraints hamper agriculture’s future. The land is lacking, and residents and people in business have competing demands. Water and …

Press release… The fight against the Mediterranean Fruit Fly continues to prevent yield loss. Within the scope of the Good Agricultural Practices Project carried out by the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association (EYMSİB) together with the İzmir Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry, 2,500 Mediterranean Fruit Fly control …

Press release… 250 European spice producers will meet in Bodrum, the worldwide known distict of Muğla Noting that they will host the European Spice Association General Assembly in Bodrum on October 5-8, 2022 as two exporters’ associations under the roof of the EİB (Aegean Exporters’ Associations), Aegean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds …

The members of the women’s cooperative operating in the Black Sea province of Rize’s Pazar district, which received two tons of linden orders from Saudi Arabian businesses, with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, have started to harvest. “We tried to reach all linden producers in Rize with the …

The General Directorate of Forestry, which carries out activities for the dissemination of linden cultivation, contributes approximately 6 million TL to forest villagers and 35 million TL to the national economy with linden. Linden, whose kg price reaches almost 500 TL, is exported to 60 countries ranging from Kosovo to …

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry announced its hazelnut harvest expectation as 765 thousand 287 tonnes, an increase of 12 percent compared to last year. A statement was made from the social media account of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry regarding the hazelnut harvest in 2022. Expected increase in …