Wasting food has become an epidemic of the 21st century. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization says we throw out 30 percent of the food we produce every year, costing the global economy nearly one trillion dollars. Yasin Eken reports on a food programme aiming to change the tide in …

Last Friday, Türkiye, the UN, Russia, and Ukraine signed a landmark deal to resume grain exports through three Ukrainian ports after months of blockage due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, now in its sixth month. Under the deal, the joint coordination centre was set up in Istanbul to carry out inspections …

The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC), established as part of a landmark deal to resume grain exports from Ukraine, has started work in Istanbul, Russia’s defense ministry said on Tuesday. The center will be officially opened in a ceremony on Wednesday, Turkiye’s Defense Ministry said separately on Tuesday. Ukraine, Russia, Turkiye …

Turkiye is “optimistic” that a deal could be reached soon on resuming Ukrainian grain exports through the Black Sea, its top diplomat said Thursday. Talks between Turkiye, Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations about a Black Sea corridor are “going well so far,” Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told public broadcaster …

Turkish tea is world famous and one of the favorite hot beverages Turks consume several times a day. It is domestically produced with the largest growing area in the Black Sea city of Rize. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry’s latest accessible data, Turkiye is the sixth largest …

AgTech is a sector unlike any other. It involves the digitalisation of a lot of physical assets and typically spans over very vast, remote environments, which collectively have a huge role to play in the sustainability and climate agenda. At Syngenta, they thrive off innovation and offer solutions to fight …

Tea exports from Turkiye to 97 countries in the first half of the year soared by 19 percent and reached 12.2 million dollars. Belgium, the United Kingdom and Germany were the three countries with the highest exports. The interest in Turkish tea in Europe was also reflected in the export …

A group of scientists in central Turkey is researching some 2,500 genotypes to domestically produce wheat resistant to the impacts of climate change… As agricultural practices shift to sustainable crops in the face of increasing damage from the fallout of climate change, scientists look for new ways to keep agricultural stocks …

Farmers in Turkiye’s southeast and northwest are concerned about the abundance of insects threatening their crops as the temperatures increase. Over the past few weeks, their fields have been invaded by grasshoppers and loxostege sticticalis, a moth species. Pesticides are the farmers’ only option against the small invaders nibbling on …

According to the TGDF (The Federation of Food and Drink Industry Associations of Turkiye) Digital Data Panel prepared by Agrimetre, based on the Foreign Trade Data announced by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT), in the first 5 months of 2022, the agriculture, food and beverage sector realized exports of 10.1 …