Climate Change and Environment

Press release… Hemp, which stands out with its wide range of usage areas and environmentally friendly features, is shown among the strategic raw materials of the future. At the Hemp for a Sustainable Future Workshop organised by the Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB) and the Izmir Branch of the Chamber of …

Press release… Ahmet Tiryakioğlu, Chairman of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM) Cereals, Pulses, Oil Seeds and Products Sector Board, said that grain production reduces the pressure on agricultural income… Tiryakioğlu, who drew attention to the fact that frost-related losses are particularly concentrated in fruit production areas, while grains, pulses and …

Press release… Hayrettin Uçak, Chair of the Aegean Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exporters’ Association, who is also a producer, stated that climate change has made itself felt more clearly today and that it is imperative to switch to covered production and to spread agricultural insurance in order to prevent the …

In eastern Black Sea province of Trabzon’s Yomra district, investor Elif Çakıroğlu’s agricultural move, which started 6 years ago when she travelled to America, turned from a container-type mini plant factory into a greenhouse. Çakıroğlu, who made sustainable agriculture possible with the technological greenhouses she established, also paved the way …

Dursun Yıldız, Chairperson of the Water Policies Association, warned about the droughts, water allocation crises and inter-basin water transfers across Turkey and emphasised that the current water management approach should be radically changed. Stating that Türkiye is under the influence of climate change, Dursun Yıldız said, “Water resources are distributed …

Türkiye’s northwestern Thracian region, known for its agricultural output of wheat and barley, faces the risk of its most severe drought in history if rain does not occur in the coming days, warns an expert. İbrahim Toruk “In the absence of rain for the next several days, we predict that wheat crops will fail …

Cocoa yields will be “destroyed” by 2030 without financial support and fairer markets, Ivory Coast farmers have warned. The West African nation is the world’s largest producer of cocoa, with farmers in the Bafing-Tonkpi region supplying chocolate to global markets, including the United Kingdom. But years of depressed prices have …

Türkiye faces increasing climate disasters, with frost, drought and temperature shifts threatening agriculture… This year, numerous disasters have occurred worldwide due to sudden temperature fluctuations. In Türkiye, unusually warm temperatures, exceeding seasonal norms from February to April, caused plants to bloom prematurely. Then, the subsequent sharp drop in temperatures negatively …

Professor Dr. Nuray Şahinler, Faculty Member of Uşak University Faculty of Agriculture, explained that climate change negatively affects beekeeping and sudden changes in air temperatures lead to losses in bee colonies. Dr. Nuray Şahinler She emphasised that the risk of death increases when bees that form winter clusters go out …

Türkiye has exported nearly 330 million dollars worth of apricots over the past five years, underscoring the importance of the fruit that has been among the most severely damaged by severe frost earlier this month. The cold snap not only devastated apricots, but also caused significant harm to peaches, apples, nectarines, as …