Mechanization and Technology

Professor Dr. Vahit Kirişci addresses ‘Vision for the Future: Transition to Digital Agriculture’ international hybrid conference… Turkiye’s agriculture and forestry minister on Friday called for more investment in innovation and digitalization to increase food production and achieve food security.  Participating at the Vision for the Future: Transition to Digital Agriculture …

Press release… The installed power level of Biomass Power Plants (BES), whose number is increasing rapidly in Turkiye’s renewable and clean energy sources, has reached the level of 2 thousand 100 Megawatts (MW). While BESs are producing in 73 of 81 cities across Turkiye, the installed power has doubled in …

Press release… EU and world food security: Neither dramatising nor minimising! Copa and Cogeca held their presidency meetings this week in Brussels. Speakers from the Commission, the FAO and UNAF analysed the complexity of the Ukrainian, European and global agri-food situation. These exchanges were at odds with the stances taken …

Technology is playing a pivotal role in transforming various sectors, and agriculture is no different. Thanks to agritech startups that are equipping farmers with cutting-edge tech tools and enabling them to function more seamlessly than ever. From crop health monitoring, crop yield estimation, crop loss assessment to various other farm …

‘We cannot afford to continue taking land for granted,’ says UN’s Ibrahim Thiaw… HOUSTON, Texas… A UN study released this week shows humans are killing the planet. The UN report says up to 40% of the Earth’s land is degraded, threatening roughly half of the global Gross Domestic Product ($44 …

On April 27, 2022, the Turkish Government published new Biosafety Decision approvals for the importof genetically engineered (GE) soybean and corn. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MinAF)approved two new soybean events and two new corn events for feed and cancelled the approvals of three corn events and one soybean …

Press release… 26 April 2022, Ankara – A virtual inception meeting was held on 11 April 2022 to announce the Letter of Agreement (LoA) signed between FAO and the General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies (TAGEM). In addition to high-level officers from FAO and TAGEM, representatives, researchers and experts from Azerbaijan, …

Republican People’s Party (CHP) Niğde Deputy Ömer Fethi Gürer said that the agricultural census, which guides agricultural policies, has been forgotten for 20 years. Gürer said, “There has been no agricultural census for more than 20 years. Under normal circumstances, at least two agricultural censuses should have been made, once …

Ukrainian farmers have sown 2.5 million hectares of spring crops so far in 2022, 20% of the expected area, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday, adding that areas of intense conflict could see a drop of 70% of the sowing area. Ukraine has said the 2022 spring sowing area could …

Ondokuz Mayıs University (OMU) Faculty of Agriculture, Agricultural Structures and Irrigation Department Lecturer Professor Dr. Yusuf Demir, talking about the effects of global climate change in the world, said, “Maybe 30 years from now, we will plant cotton instead of hazelnuts and tea in the Black Sea.” Samsun Ondokuz Mayıs …