Farming

Türkiye’s “rose capital,” Isparta, has suffered a significant blow to its rose output this year due to a severe frost event that affected much of the country in April. Rose oil The frost caused a 30 percent decline in rose flower yield, reducing the harvest from 11,000 tonnes last year to just …

Press release… National Cotton Council President Fevzi Çondur: Rising Input Costs Are Challenging Producers Stating that the rising costs of basic inputs faced by cotton producers, Çondur said, “Surged prices of production items such as fertilizer, diesel fuel, seeds and pesticides are making it difficult for our farmers to maintain …

Press release… The Eastern Black Sea Region, under the jurisdiction of Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Associations (DKİB) Secretariat General, saw exports totaling 929,980,511 dollars in the January-July 2025 period. In the first seven months of 2025, exports from the Eastern Black Sea Region included 716,816,000 dollars from Trabzon, 115,465,000 dollars …

Ömür Kula, General Manager of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Türkiye, stated that humanity, on a global scale, has depleted the natural resources available for 2025 in less than seven months and that after this date, we have been living by borrowing from nature. “According to calculations by the Global …

Earth Overshoot Day, the date when the resources that nature can renew within a year are depleted, is calculated this year as July 24th. From this date on, resources for future years begin to be depleted. Istanbul… Experts state that the ever-earlier Earth Overshoot Day threatens the ecological balance and …

Across Africa, smallholder farmers sit at the heart of the continent’s food systems; yet, many remain trapped in cycles of low productivity, limited market access, and financial exclusion. At Solidaridad Southern Africa, we’ve seen firsthand how digital innovation and inclusive financing are changing that narrative – not just in theory, …

Save the Date! COP30 Farmers’ Summit in Brasília, 6–7 November 2025… As global attention turns to the upcoming 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP30), the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO), together with its member Confederação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Brasil (CNA Brazil), is proud to announce the COP30 Farmers’ Summit, the first farmer-led summit ahead …

July, 2025… The Sustainable Food and Drink Industry Association (SÜGİD) is a stakeholder platform established to support the sustainability transformation of the agriculture-based food and beverage industry. By bringing together a wide range of actors, from industrial organizations to academia, public institutions to civil society representatives, the association pioneers the …

Press release… National Cotton Council President Fevzi Çondur highlighted the fundamental problems faced by the cotton sector in the 2025 production season and the expectations for solutions. Çondur emphasized that cotton production is not limited to farmers but is a broad process encompassing agriculture, industry, and exports. He stated that …

The transformation wrought by the European Green Deal in the agricultural sector is also impacting olive production in Türkiye. The study notes that while this process provides a competitive advantage in international trade, it could also increase production costs. As part of the Anatolivar Project, supported by the European Union …