Soil Management

Press release… Sebahattin Arslantürk, Vice Chairman of the Hazelnut and Products Sector Committee of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters’ Association (DKİB), said that in order to maintain the superiority in international markets in hazelnut exports, which is the agricultural product that provides the highest net foreign exchange inflow of Türkiye, …

The National Water Council held its inaugural meeting to address the pressing issue of depleting water resources, with Agriculture and Forestry Minister İbrahim Yumaklı underscoring the widespread misconception of water as an unlimited global resource. Yumaklı highlighted the diminishing availability of clean water due to rapid consumption, pollution, industrialization, urbanization, climate change and …

Türkiye’s Eastern Mediterranean province of Adana’s district Yüreğir Chamber of Agriculture President Mehmet Akın Doğan said that the VAT exemption applied in fertiliser and feed should also be applied to agricultural pesticides or the VAT rate should be reduced. Mehmet Akın Doğan THE VAT EXEMPTION APPLIED IN FERTILISER AND FEED …

The threat of drought is increasing day by day and Türkiye is no exception. Associate Professor Dr. Canan Acar, from the University of Twente of the Netherlands, has highlights that Türkiye consumes 60 billion cubic metres of water annually. She suggests that by changing the agricultural irrigation system and reducing …

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 …

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 …

Technologies that enable site-specific management of arable land often are regarded as an essential building block – if not a guarantee – for sustainable arable farming. Particularly in political papers at the European and national levels, euphoric expectations sometimes are raised. However, surveys show that these technologies still are not …