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Prof. Dr. Nevzat Artık Ankara Univ. Faculty of Engineering, Food Engineering Department / Ankara Ankara Univ. Food Safety Institute / Ankara The epidemic, which caused the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare an international public health emergency and is currently continuing, called the 2019-nCoV, and then the Covid-19 by WHO’s …

Turkey’s milk production up over 6% in Q1 of 2020… Country’s statistical authority says milk collected by integrated dairies totaled nearly 2.5M tons Turkey’s cow milk production rose by 6.3% year-on-year in January-March, the country’s statistical authority said on Tuesday. TurkStat (TÜİK) said in a statement that the amount of …

Press release… April 29, 2020 While Coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic enhances the awareness concerning nature destructions of which the cause of climate changes, Paris Climate Agreement, signed by Turkey in 2016, can not enter into force for not has been adopted in Parliament. Turkey who inked the agreement in 2015 so …

“Organic agriculture costs the planet greatly!” Sabancı University Lecturer Dr. Selim Çetiner said that in order to provide sufficient and high quality nutrients to the world population, which is expected to be 10 billion in 2050, maximum efficiency should be obtained from the unit area and this should be done …

We are in the days when the local production, the value of the soil, the domestic seed and the need to fight for it are once again understood. The coronavirus reminded us of the importance of our food needs as well as healthcare and drug supply… Neptün Soyer, who is …

At an international meeting where I attended three years ago in Brussels, the speech of Ellen MacArthur, a British social entrepreneur on the topic of ‘Circular economy’, which had great repercussions in the world, left a deep impression on me. Last year during the World Congress of International Federation of …

India is set to impose a nationwide ban on some single-use plastic items on Oct. 2, with the goal of eliminating all such items by 2022.  India generates about 26,000 metric tons of plastic waste daily, much of which ends up as litter. As part of implementing the ban, the …

This article cited from FreshTurkey Magazine… First of all, let’s start to write with an interesting news. There is a following clause in the analysis made by the Union of Agricultural Chambers of Turkey (TZOB): “Turkey where ranks number 1 in the world production of quince, lost the first place …

Disposable plastic bags prohibited in New Zealand… Number of countries implementing similar prohibitions exceeded 80… In New Zealand, the regulation prohibiting the use of disposable plastic bags to a very large extent entered into force. As of July 1, 2019, the sale and use of disposable plastic bags by the …

Every year, a choking smog descends on northwest India as the region’s farmers burn their fields following the rice harvest – a phenomenon that has helped make New Delhi one of the world’s most polluted cities. Now, scientists have come up with a method that would allow farmers to sow …