Mechanization and Technology

Press release… TürkTraktör, the first manufacturer of the Turkish automotive industry and the leading brand of agricultural mechanization, announced its half-year financial results covering the first six months of 2022. The company broke the all-time record in the first six months with 8,254 units in exports. TürkTraktör General Manager Aykut …

Agriculture is one of the few industries that fully utilizes all four components of production — land, labour, capital, and organization/management – while also consuming the most scarce resource, water. Several constraints hamper agriculture’s future. The land is lacking, and residents and people in business have competing demands. Water and …

Press release… The fight against the Mediterranean Fruit Fly continues to prevent yield loss. Within the scope of the Good Agricultural Practices Project carried out by the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association (EYMSİB) together with the İzmir Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry, 2,500 Mediterranean Fruit Fly control …

The construction of the project to bring water to Lake Marmara in the western province of Manisa as it dried up in the last two years with the drought and water resources cut has been completed and is ready for implementation, officials have announced. Birol Çınar “The project, which has been completed, will provide …

Sustainability is the word that will define this decade – unless the pandemic lasts longer than expected and claims the top spot – so it is a worrying day when the world has to mark how unsustainable it really, with humanity passing an unnerving milestone on July 28 after consuming …

Zhang Jinpeng decided to return to his hometown in rural Shandong province to be nearer his family. Sensing an opportunity in agricultural e-commerce, he started an online store on Pinduoduo, China’s largest agriculture platform, to sell garlic. Zhang’s hometown, Jinxiang County in southwestern Shandong province, is famous for its garlic. A …

AgTech is a sector unlike any other. It involves the digitalisation of a lot of physical assets and typically spans over very vast, remote environments, which collectively have a huge role to play in the sustainability and climate agenda. At Syngenta, they thrive off innovation and offer solutions to fight …

A group of scientists in central Turkey is researching some 2,500 genotypes to domestically produce wheat resistant to the impacts of climate change… As agricultural practices shift to sustainable crops in the face of increasing damage from the fallout of climate change, scientists look for new ways to keep agricultural stocks …

Farmers in Turkiye’s southeast and northwest are concerned about the abundance of insects threatening their crops as the temperatures increase. Over the past few weeks, their fields have been invaded by grasshoppers and loxostege sticticalis, a moth species. Pesticides are the farmers’ only option against the small invaders nibbling on …

Press release… Gülçin Güloğlu, General Manager of Güloğlu Plastic Company, was the guest of the “Impacts of Climate Change in Industry and Solutions Workshop” organized by Uşak University at the Uşak Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Güloğlu drew attention to the importance of recycling in her speech titled “Circular Economy …