Farming

It is reported that expropriation works for the organised agriculture zone planned to be established within Hacı Ömer Sabancı Organised Industrial Zone in Türkiye’s Eastern Mediterranean province of Adana for organic agriculture are continuing. Adana Chamber of Industry (ADASO) President Ümit Özgümüş said in a statement that Türkiye’s first organised …

Rice prices have risen in the wake of new trade restrictions, a few weeks ahead of an October meeting of WTO senior officials that is intended to lay the groundwork for progress at the trade body’s thirteenth ministerial conference in five months’ time. Markets around the world have reacted to …

Mayor of Malatya Metropolitan Municipality Selahattin Gürkan examined the works carried out in the World Apricot Trade Centre. Selahattin Gürkan Gürkan stated that with the activation of the World Apricot Trade Centre, important steps will be taken to turn apricot into an industrial product and emphasised that the income obtained …

“Biodiversity, Agriculture and Food Symposium” will be held in Türkiye’s Eastern Anatolian province of Erzurum by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) to discuss the loss of biodiversity in agriculture and its possible effects due to faulty practices in agriculture and climate change that has increased its impact in recent …

The German government appears to have dropped a much-debated idea of cutting diesel subsidies for farmers for now, but the question of what climate-friendly alternatives there are for tractors and other agricultural machinery remains... After lengthy negotiations with liberal Finance Minister Christian Lindner over spending and savings in the agricultural …

Minister Kacır announced the good news: Milas Olive Oil is registered! Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır announced another geographical sign registered in the European Union (EU). Fatih Kacır “Milas Oil Olives” was published in the Official Journal of the European Union and became Türkiye’s 14th geographical indication …

Nestle Damak and TEMA Foundation (The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats) aim to ensure sustainable agriculture in Antep Pistachio with the ‘Let Our Pistachio Be Abundant’ project they launched in 2011. Within the scope of the project, 2 thousand farmers were …

Press release… Director-General addresses International Conference on Food Security in Uzbekistan… Samarkand, Uzbekistan – The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, QU Dongyu, today renewed calls for the transformation of global agrifood systems at an International Conference on Food Security in Uzbekistan. 07 September 2023, Samarkand, …

Press release… USA is the leader in dried fig exports… In the 2022/23 season, the United States was at the top of dried fig exports from Türkiye with an amount of 39.7 million dollars. Dried figs to the USA were 31.9 million dollars in the same period in the 2021/22 …

The informal meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Cordoba focused on the use of new technologies to advance food security, combat climate change and achieve agricultural sector profitability. (The acting Spanish minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Luis Planas, welcomes the European Agriculture Commissioner, Janusz Wojciechowski. © Pool PEUE/Julio Muñoz) The …