Mechanization and Technology

The transformation of agrifood systems – a unique opportunity to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity – is under threat from reduced funding… Rome/Dubai – December, 2023 The amount of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems is strikingly low and continues to diminish compared to global climate finance flows, a …

Press release… Paris, France, Braunschweig, Germany December 2023 – The International Fertilizer Association (IFA) and agri benchmark Cash Crop have announced the start of a joint project aimed at collecting data on the quantity of fertilizer used in key crops within all majorfertilizer-consuming countries. The project represents a significant move …

İGSAŞ to brake on half a billion dollar fertiliser imports… İlkay Ünal, General Manager of Istanbul Gübre Sanayi Anonim Şirketi (Fertilizer Industry Inc.), said that with the new investment in Kocaeli, they will ramp up our market share in urea fertiliser from 15 to 30 percent. İGSAŞ, the sector leader …

PepsiCo Türkiye General Manager Evrim Şen said that they think the food crisis can be prevented by ensuring sustainability in agriculture in a symposium held in Istanbul… “We are a company whose products are consumed more than 1 billion times a day by consumers around the world. At the same …

Press release… TürkTraktör, the first manufacturer of the Turkish automotive industry and the leading company in agricultural mechanisation, supports the growth of start-ups operating in this field in order to accelerate technology integration in agriculture. TürkTraktör realised its first initiative in this direction with its investment in Agrovisio, which provides …

We meet Dr Nomman Ahmed, Executive Director of Global Practice Advanced Analytics & sigma at Kynetec, and speak to him about his specialist subject: predictive intelligence. 1. Let’s start at the beginning. What is Predictive Intelligence in plain English? Intelligence is best described as the ability to accumulate knowledge, to …

Ahmet Güldal, General Manager of the Turkish Grain Board (TMO), said that the productivity in grains has enhanced with newly developed seeds and said, “In the 1990s, 250-300 kilograms per decare of wheat was said to be good yields, but now there is a production of 700-800 kilograms per decare …

Any Concrete Progress in Climate Change Meetings? Disappointment Again! The impact of global climate change, which has been increasing since the industrial revolution of our world, mostly due to the use of energy-based fossil fuels by human beings, has been felt more in the last 60 years. Since 1988, Rio …

Minister Yumaklı said, “I would like to say that the research of the product that can be produced in a greenhouse environment in the capital of grapes like Manisa and can be harvested twice a year has been completed and that the applications of the producers related to the production …

23 November 2023 Leading agrifood ventures internationally The Dutch Agrifood Venture Hub was launched in Wageningen on 22 November 2023, to position the Netherlands further as a leading agrifood venture hotspot. The launch, attended by dozens of entrepreneurs and financiers, highlighted financing opportunities for startups and scale-ups in the food …