Mechanization and Technology

After 7 years of research, scientists develop rice variety resistant to floods and salinity… DHAKA, Bangladesh… Bangladeshi scientists have claimed a breakthrough by developing a special rice variety, resistant to floods and salinity. Starting in 2015 as a joint project between Bangladesh Atomic Agriculture Research Institute (BINA) and Bangladesh Agricultural …

Minister accused of exorbitant price, agricultural machinery sector pointed to input costs… The statement of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli that the exorbitant increases in the prices of agricultural machinery purchased by the farmer with a grant will be punished, had an echo in the sector. In …

Press release… Kınık Agricultural Organised Industrial Zone (OIZ) will be a remedy for the medicinal and aromatic plants sector… Another agricultural product group, of which the Aegean Region is the leader in exports, was registered as non-wood forest products within the Aegean Exporters’ Association (EİB). Cahit Doğan Yağcı, Chair of …

Turkiye broke a record with the production of 72 thousand 655 tractors in 2021. Lastly, 72 thousand 32 tractors were produced in 2017. Turkish Association of Agricultural Equipment and Machinery Manufacturers (TARMAKBİR) has published the tractor data for 2021. According to these data, tractor production, which was 50 thousand 417 …

As the main deadline for the 2030 targets of the EU’s Farm to Fork strategy approaches, the food chain actors push for solution-oriented policies and tools setting a clear path towards an innovative and more sustainable approach for our food systems. Although the strategy’s targets to make the EU’s agri-food …

Press release… Tolga Şallı, Chairperson of the Environmentalist Energy Association, made a written statement about the renewable energy. Şallı said, “Our country, which has many main resources from agriculture to tourism, from industry to energy, needs to use renewable energy resources in the most effective way in the production stages. …

Farmers will be paid for looking after England’s soils for the first time from next year, when the first stage of the government’s new support payments begins. Environmental groups criticised the measures as puny and accused ministers of failing in their promises to use the UK’s departure from the EU …

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry determines alternative crops to reduce the impact of climate change on agriculture. The coffee tree stands out in the Mediterranean. With the warm winters in Marmara, olive groves become widespread and hot and dry summers facilitate cotton production. It is predicted that orchards will …

Unmanned tractors, the latest favourite of the smart agriculture market, which grows by an average of 10.1 pct every year and is expected to reach 20.8 billion dollars by 2026, will guide the agriculture of the future. John Deere, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery and sold …