Mechanization and Technology

The agricultural futures market could launch in 2026… Ali Kırali, General Manager of the Turkish Mercantile Exchange (TMEX – TÜRİB) stated that they have prepared the infrastructure for the futures market. “We aim to trade futures contracts based on electronic warehouse (commodity) receipts (EWR) and TMEX’s price indices in this …

Press release… Pınar Meat (Et) invested 439.4 million Turkish Liras in 2024, undertaking significant work in renewable energy, water efficiency, waste management, logistics optimization and sustainable packaging. Hüseyin Demir With the solar panels it commissioned, Pınar Meat covered 8 percent of its total electricity consumption in 2024. Through its sustainable …

Press release… Syngenta Vegetable Seeds and Heritable Agriculture enter collaboration to optimize commercial crop portfolios using AI Heritable, a spinoff from Google parent Alphabet’s innovation lab, will use AI-tools to help accelerate data-driven decisions for the best placement of vegetable varieties to offer growers BASEL, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Vegetable seed companies …

Professor Dr. Halim Orta, a faculty member in the Department of Biosystems Engineering, Land and Water Resources, at Namık Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Tekirdağ, stated that the number of ponds (reservoirs) should be boosted to minimize the effects of drought. Orta told an Anadolu Agency (AA) reporter that the …

Chef Ömür Akkor, who visited the Agricultural Technologies Cluster at TECHNOFEST 2025, said, “We need to bring technology and agriculture together and strengthen it. Agriculture has been practiced in this country for 12,000 years. This makes it the longest-running agricultural region in the world. That’s why TECHNOFEST’s agricultural initiative this …

Entrepreneurs Ebru Baripoğlu and Arda Kılınçkını showcased their bioplastic products, made from agricultural, tea and egg waste, at TECHNOFEST Istanbul. Istanbul… Organised under the leadership of the Ministry of Industry and Technology and the T3 Foundation, with Anadolu Agency (AA) as its Global Communication Partner, TECHNOFEST, the world’s largest aviation, …

Director-General QU Dongyu addresses G20 Agriculture Working Group Ministerial Meeting in South Africa… 18/09/2025 Cape Town – The world’s largest economies, as both major producers and consumers, are uniquely positioned to drive the transformation towards more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization …

Spain and Türkiye are launching a joint scientific effort to better understand the worsening effects of droughts and sinkholes in central Türkiye, with a particular focus on Konya, the country’s vital grain-producing region. The collaboration, which brings together Zaragoza University in Spain, Niğde University in Türkiye and the Turkish water authority, aims to map and …

Türkiye battles climate-driven water crisis with innovation and regional cooperation… Water is not only a vital source of life but also a fundamental natural resource that supports food and energy production, transportation, waste management and industrial development. The total volume of water on Earth is estimated at approximately 1,386 million …

Turkish seed business’ foreign trade surplus continues since 2018, as country’s seed industry set to jump from 11th to among top 5 by 2030, says sector representative… ANKARA… Türkiye aims to elevate its seed sector from the 11th rank to the top five in the global seed industry in the …