Seed Production and Technology

Press release… Dr. Kenan Yalvaç, Secretary General of the Turkish Seed Industry Association (TÜRKTED), announced that The 2025 World Seed Congress of the International Seed Federation (ISF) will be held in Istanbul on 19-21 May 2025 in cooperation with the sector representatives Sub Union of Seed Industrialists and Producers (TSÜAB) …

Registered wheat exports to the Middle East market… Three wheat varieties specific to Antalya, named ‘Koç’, ‘Perge’ and ‘Seki’, were developed and registered. Among the first and only registered wheat of the city, ‘Koç’, which is suitable for growing on the coast, was harvested and 1000 tonnes were exported to …

Immediately after China authorised the production of the first genetically modified wheat variety, a major trial of genetically modified wheat has been launched in Australia… Australian seed breeding firm Integrain has launched a trial to grow genetically modified seeds in a greenhouse environment. Earlier this year, the Perth-based company, majority …

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı stated that 97 out of every 100 units of seeds used are produced in Türkiye. “We have 1.3 million tonnes of production. Türkiye has now entered the literature as a seed producing country in the world. We export seeds to 117 countries,” Yumaklı …

Hacı Ömer Güler, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Seed Growers Association, stated that Türkiye is not dependent on Israel for seeds and that the cessation of trade with Israel will not have a negative impact on the country. Güler also emphasised that Türkiye’s seed sector is …

Yıldıray Gençer, the Chairperson of the Sub-Union of the Seed Industrialists and Producers, stated that the Turkish seed sector has a strong structure. Yıldıray Gençer “We not only produce our own seeds. We export seeds to over 100 countries. In 2023, we exported 326.8 million dollars against 249.6 million dollars …

Some 120,000 genetic specimens are kept under protection in the country’s two seed gene banks, Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı has said. İbrahim Yumaklı During his visit to the Turkish seed bank in the capital Ankara, one of the two seed banks operating under the General Directorate of Agricultural …

Yıldıray Gençer, Head of the Sub-Union of the Seed Industrialists and Producers (TSÜAB), said that as seed industrialists, they give great support to local varieties, but warned that if the entire production is carried out with ancestral seeds with low productivity, tomato, which is 50 liras today, could jump to …

Two types of domestic and national sugar beet seeds produced within the scope of the project carried out in cooperation with Türkşeker, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University and Kastamonu University were registered. Domestic beet seeds, the production of which has started, will meet with farmers next year. In recent years, …

Türkiye is in the top 10 across the world! Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı stated that Türkiye is among the top 10 countries in the world in seed production and said, “97 kilograms of every 100 kilograms of seeds used in Türkiye are produced in the soil of …