Soil Management

World Soil Day (WSD), 5 December is the United Nations Observance that celebrates healthy soils for a food-secure future. This years’ campaign “Keep soil alive, Protect soil biodiversity” urges us to focus our attention on the workers belowground – from tiny bacteria to agile millipedes and slimy earthworms – all of which contribute to …

Press release European Climate Foundation… Governments plan to produce 120 percent more of the maximum amount of fossil fuels that can be burned to limit global warming to 1.5 ° C by 2030. The “Production Deficit Report” prepared by the United Nations and leading research organizations is the first to …

Within the scope of the National Biological Diversity Inventory and Monitoring Project initiated by the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks (DKMP) Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in 2013, 13,409 plant and animal species have been identified at approximately 852,644 coordinated points. According to the information compiled from …

An agricultural engineer in the eastern province of Şırnak has advised the unemployed people to breed Californian worms, telling that he produces three tones of worm fertilizer a month by only working an hour a day. “Breeding worms and making worm fertilizer is an effortless job,” said Abdulmutalip Kocaman. Worm fertilizer helps considerably in …

A new type of soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, potentially expanding the map of farmable land around the globe to previously inhospitable places and reducing water use in agriculture at a time of …

Within the scope of the goals included in the Presidential Annual Programme, division of agricultural lands through inheritance and sales will be prevented, financial support will be provided to the heirs in land acquisition. In order to prevent the division of agricultural lands through inheritance and sale, financial support will …

Press release… Highlights: Intergovernmental Council on Pandemic Prevention;Addressing risk drivers including deforestation & wildlife trade;Tax high pandemic-risk activities 540,000 – 850,000 unknown viruses in nature could still infect people;More frequent, deadly and costly pandemics forecast;Current economic impacts are 100 times the estimated cost of prevention Future pandemics will emerge more …

Digital transformation will be critical in redesigning production to prioritize the environment for a sustainable future, a major Turkish business association said on Oct. 20.  “One of the most important problems of our age is undoubtedly climate change,” said Bahadir Balkır, the vice president of the Turkish Industry and Business …

The agricultural land market will be created with a database that can be used by all buyers and sellers in transactions such as agricultural land purchases and mortgages. According to the AA (Anadolu Agency) reporter’s compilation from the 2021 Budget Justification, the agriculture sector will continue to contribute to the …

Press release… The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has decided to ban 16 pesticides used to prevent disease and pests harming the product. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), some of the pesticides considered as one of the most important public and environmental health problems contain “extremely dangerous”, “highly …