Mechanization and Technology

India is the largest producer and the second largest exporter of cotton in the world. Yet, for the farmers raising cotton crop the year 2017 was horrendous. Reason? Nearly 50 per cent of their yield was destroyed following an attack by the pink bollworm. This happened despite cotton farmers using …

The amount of agricultural pesticide used in Turkey increased to 59 thousand tons since 2009. The southern province of Antalya saw the highest increase. The usage of pesticides increased by 57 percent in the last decade. The total amount of pesticides used in 2017 increased to 54.098 tons compared to …

Circular Agronomics… CIRCULAR AGRONOMICS – Efficient Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus cycling in the European Agri-food System and related up- and down-stream processes to mitigate emissions Circular Agronomics (CA) provides a comprehensive synthesis of practical solutions to improve the current Carbon (C), Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) cycling in European agro-ecosystems …

In order to increase the efficiency and digitalization of the services of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, various regulations and communiqués in the field of livestock and various agricultural activities and practices are envisaged to be published in the Official Gazette’s yesterday issue… Accordingly, the Ministry under the supervision …

Within the scope of the Eleventh Development Plan, 2 million hectares of land will be opened to irrigation within 5 years… O the other hand ‘Market Information and Monitoring System’ will be established for monitoring agricultural input and product price fluctuations, protecting competition and eliminating market disruptions. The division of …

Seed Industrialists and Producers Sub-Union of Turkey (TSÜAB), within the scope of Central Anatolia Region Seed Sector Development-II project carried out a marketing launch in Iran between 17-21 June 2019… Turkish seed companies and officials of Iran held a twinning meeting in which 28 seed companies from Turkey participated with …

Turkish Seed Growers Association (TÜRKTOB) President and Ornamental Plants Producers Sub- Union (SÜSBİR) Vice President Savaş Akcan said that using of Turkish ornamental plants in ‘Nation gardens’ along with environmental and landscape works of municipalities at least 70 percent in value carries great importance for them. “In addition to being …

The Ministry of Industry and Technology, in the first quarter of this year, issued incentive certificates for 21 greenhouse investments whose fixed investment amount exceeded 150 million TL… According to the information compiled from the Ministry of Industry and Technology data, in January-March 2019 thousand 101 investment incentive certificates were …

Feed industry is one of the most arguable issues in Turkish agriculture. This industry has been growing continuously for years. Turkey Feed Industrialists Association (TÜRKİYEM-BİR) Chairman M. Ülkü Karakuş says that the sector has grown by 350 percent in the last 20 years while reaching 25 million tons of production. …

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli has made written statement on combating activities of the Ministry regarding desertification and erosion… In Turkey, desertification and erosion control carried out in the years 2011-2018. Within the scope of these works 327 implementation projects achieved. Pakdemirli said: “Such projects comprise of overall …