Press release… Children in Tire, Beydağ, Çeşme, Karaburun and Kiraz districts will also benefit by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality’s ‘Nursing Baby’ project from now on. Thus, there will be no district in Izmir province where the project is not implemented. İzmir Metropolitan Municipality continues to deliver the healthy milk it gets …
Read More »Blog Layout
AGRICULTURE SECTOR MEETS THE AGRI-FINTECH CONCEPT…
In the last 5 years, the number of companies that have developed products and services on financial technologies has increased rapidly. The common purpose of these companies is to design new technologies that aim to improve and automate of financial services and bring them together with the peoples. Hundreds of …
Read More »COTTON LONGS FOR THE DAYS WHEN USED TO BE ‘WHITE GOLD’…
Press release… Stakeholders of the textile and apparel industry, having produced value added over 60 billion dollars in 2019, are not happy with the implemented policies related to cotton as the main raw material of these sectors. Across the Anatolia, which is an ancient cotton geography, 43 percent of the …
Read More »FAMOUS BUFFALO CREAM OF BOLU REGION GETS GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION…
Bolu’s famous water buffalo cream was registered by the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office and received a geographical indication. Bolu (a northwestern province in Turkey) Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Türker Ateş said, “Afyon’s cream is famous. Bolu’s buffalo cream is also famous. From now on, we will say …
Read More »HAPPY WORLD EGG DAY!
World Egg Day is celebrated every year on the second Friday in October. On World Egg Day, events are held across the world celebrating the egg. The first World Egg Day was celebrated in 1996 and since then we have seen a variety of wonderful events taking place internationally, with people …
Read More »“THERE IS AGRICULTURE, THERE IS LIFE”
Press release… While meat and milk prices continue to increase in markets and grocery stores in our country, the input costs of the producers such as feed, fuel oil, electricity, water and fertilizer are constantly increasing. However milk price has been the same since 15 November 2019. Animal slaughter prices …
Read More »FAO: PRICE INDEX FOR FOOD COMMODITIES ROSE IN SEPTEMBER
Press release… 08 October 2020, Rome – The benchmark price index for food commodities rose in September, led by vegetable oils and cereals, according to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 97.9 points during the month, up 2.1 percent from August …
Read More »PANDEMIC PUSHES 115 MILLION PEOPLE INTO EXTREME POVERTY!
As many as 115 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty this year due to the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank warned on Oct. 7. That is a devastating reversal after decades of progress, and higher than the bank previously estimated, even as recently as August, …
Read More »FIRST GMO WHEAT TO BE PRODUCED IN ARGENTINA…
BOGOTA, Colombia Argentina has become the first country in the world to approve HB4 drought-resistant transgenic wheat by biotechnology firm Bioceres SA, the government has confirmed. “HB4 technology provides seeds that are more tolerant to drought, minimizing production losses, improving the capacity of plants to adapt to situations of hydric …
Read More »PUMPKIN SEED PRODUCTION BECOMES FAVOURITE OF FARMERS IN NEVŞEHİR REGION…
In Nevşehir province, one of the leading pumpkin seeds production centres across Turkey, “Nevşehir Pumpkin Seed” which has a registration of geographical indiacation, contributes about 500 million liras to regional economy. Harvesting of the snack pumpkin seeds, unique to the Nevşehir region, known for their thin and long structure, continues. …
Read More »