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Agricultural Overview and Economic Importance Türkiye ranks as the world’s seventh-largest agricultural producer and the ninth-largest agricultural production area. With a solid agricultural foundation, it achieves self-sufficiency in key crops such as grain, cotton, oil, and sugar. The country has enhanced its agricultural mechanization, leading to a continuously expanding mechanized …

Innovative Approaches to Combat Soil Degradation and Restore Soil Health in the Mediterranean: Insights from SHARInG-MeD and SUS-SOIL Projects By Professor Dr. Ibrahim Ortaş, Lecturer – Çukurova University, Faculty of Agriculture, Türkiye SHARInG-MeD and SUS-SOIL Project Manager, iortas@cu.edu.tr The European Community has declared that due to unsustainable land management, overgrazing, …

When Wang Fei started his agricultural drone company five years ago, the distinctive whirr of the autonomous vehicles went practically unheard over the wide swathes of farmland in his home county of Anlu. A former sales manager for agricultural machines in the western hub of Chengdu, Wang said at the …

December, 2024 I spent years in the chocolate business, sometimes with a spatula in one hand and a chocolate mould in the other, sometimes with chocolate lessons from Dr Kleinert in Switzerland. Not to mention the search for unusual products in window observations during my travels abroad… Being a chocolatier, …

By MARGY ECKELKAMP, September 24, 2024 What work in agriculture will be revolutionized by artificial intelligence (AI)? Ryan Raguse, chief innovation officer and co-founder at Bushel, expects AI to bring further insights, replace repetitive tasks and more. Ryan Raguse “It’s already all around us. You just can’t necessarily touch it, …

October, 2024… Nestlé partners with Agritech company Klim to put regenerative food systems into practice at scale… Industry experts, representatives of NGOs, and policymakers gathered at the European Regenerative Agriculture Summit in Amsterdam were met by a handful of protesters at the door. These people were protesting against industrial farming …

During my childhood, I often used to go boating in one of Delhi’s picturesque lakes. I loved the wobbly feeling of standing on the floating jetty before boarding the boat. Little did I know that these age-old platforms could one day play a pivotal role in generating solar power, contributing …

Founded in 2009 by Brazil, China, India, Russia, India, Russia and South Africa, BRICS has become an economic powerhouse, with Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joining in 2024, accounting for more than 37 percent of global gross domestic product. Now two and a half …

Food Engineer Batuhan İnanlar stated that accounts with millions of followers can distort the facts with content that has not been questioned for the sake of more interaction and gain, arguments that do not have fields. “This situation supports the rapid spread of misinformation with economic benefits and causes damage …

Agroforestry is an important production technique implemented in many parts of the world for commercial purposes for the capitalist world and for subsistence for small farmers. The fact that it is a production technique approved in the Kyoto Protocol as the only production system that can be flexible to climate …