Farming

Turkish engineers developed; harvest losses to be reduced… Within the scope of the project prepared by the Atatürk Horticultural Central Research Institute and a private company, a new system was developed that can instantly monitor the status of the products kept in cold storage after harvest. Atatürk Horticultural Central Research …

Approximately 60 percent of table olive exports were made to 3 countries from Turkey in the 2019-2020 season. About 86.3 million dollars of foreign sales out of total 145.7 million dollars of table olives were made to Germany, Romania and Iraq. Ayhan Bakan, Member of the Board of the Aegean …

Antalya, Turkey Small versions of food products among most preferred in Turkey, abroad, says marketing manager of agriculture firm… While stress has undoubtedly risen during the coronavirus outbreak, it has also led to healthy eating habits, as consumers are now looking toward finger-sized fresh miniature vegetables rich in vitamins and …

Gene editing can have a major impact on global agriculture through rapid development of crop varieties with diverse desirable traits… In what has been a first, this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to two women scientists and an all-women team, France’s Emmanuelle Charpentier and the US’s Jennifer …

The harvest of the fully organically grown olives in Mardin’s Derik district has been completed. The producers started the process of converting the olives they collected into olive oil. Erkan Doğan, Chairperson of Mardin Olive Producers’ Union, stated that there is a fertile season in the olive harvest and said, …

200 million dollars export with 200 products in organic agriculture… Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Deputy General Director of Plant Production Dr. Mehmet Hasdemir said that Turkey ranks 6th in terms of the number of organic farmers across the world. Dr. Hasdemir noted that with 75 thousand farmers, 200 million …

Press release… NORTHERN Ireland machinery manufacturer SlurryKat has designed a special combination trailer that can be used as both a dump trailer and a silage trailer. Strong customer demand for a trailer that could be multi-purpose led to the team at SlurryKat being tasked to design and manufacture the machine …

Bekir Pakdemirli, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, announced that they will make support payments of 23 billion liras to farmers in 2021. Minister Pakdemirli, who made a presentation on the budget of his ministry at the Parliament’s Plan and Budget Committee, said, “We did not experience any problems with food …

Coffee will not come from Yemen, but from BATEM! The West Mediterranean Agricultural Research Institute, which accelerates domestic and national coffee production activities, aims to create a brand with the slogan “Coffee comes from BATEM”. The West Mediterranean Agricultural Research Institute (BATEM), situated in Antalya province, which has accelerated its …

A new type of soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, potentially expanding the map of farmable land around the globe to previously inhospitable places and reducing water use in agriculture at a time of …