Smart Technologies

Press release… The quality of dried fruit increases and labour and time savings are achieved… Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association has been working diligently for many years to boost the production quality and food safety of seedless raisins, dried apricots and dried figs, which are among Turkiye’s traditional …

The government plans to impose a new agricultural model that moves more production to cities to provide fresh and cheaper food for the population and overhauls the support system for producers as it seeks to improve and modernize the sector… The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is preparing to roll …

Press release… Barns fitted with new 3D cameras that monitor cows are helping dairy and beef producers save feed costs, reduce climate impact and improve animal welfare. The data generated creates a new Saved Feed Index trait on sires which has potential to save an estimated 740 thousand tonnes of …

Press release… By Chris McCullough PAYING more attention to feed efficiency indexes when selecting sires for dairy herds will help compensate the escalating costs of feed being witnessed today. Across the world feed, fertiliser and energy costs have reached record high levels that are decimating profits on dairy farms. Even …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Food Innovation Centre, which is open to companies and initiatives operating in the food and beverage sector, was established at TÜBİTAK MAM (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye, Marmara Research Centre) in Gebze district of Kocaeli province. Providing a technological infrastructure to design, develop and analyze innovative …