Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will establish “Agricultural Consultancy” Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Vahit Kirişci announced, in a written statement, “I hope we will release authorized agricultural engineers, veterinarians, food engineers, aquaculture engineers to the field under the name of Agricultural Consultancy in the coming period. In this way, …

The Ministry of Agriculture has published: Here are the crops lists to be supported in the basins in 2022… Within the scope of the Basin-Based Support Model, which is based on many items of plant production supports, the crop lists to be supported in the basins for 2022 have been …

Press release… Rome, 25 October 2022. The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Central Fisheries Research Institute (SUMAE), is organizing an International Symposium on Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (SOFAS 2022) from 25 to 27 October …

In Izmir’s Bakırçay Plain, one of Türkiye’s most fertile agricultural areas, the cotton harvest, known as “white gold”, has begun. This year, the cotton harvest in Kınık region is expected to be at least 22 thousand tonnes. The land, which started to be prepared in April with great effort and …

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Vahit Kirişci stated that farmers were supported to produce during the fight against inflation and that interest-free loans were provided through Ziraat Bank and said, “We increased the agricultural support for 2022 from 25.8 billion dollars to 54 billion dollars in 2023.” ‘WE SUPPORT OUR …

Record production in beet after wheat: It will be over 1 million tonnes! Following the record production in wheat in Türkiye’s Central Anatolian province Sivas, a record production is also expected in sugar beet. Sivas Governor Yılmaz Şimşek said that the yield in beet production could be over 1 million …

Minister of National Education Özer: “R&D centres will be opened in the field of agriculture” Visiting the vocational school where innovative agricultural practices are made in the Netherlands, Minister of National Education Mahmut Özer underlined that Turkiye is an agriculture and livestock country and said, “We are making a special …

Charitable food aid is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound of systemic inequality in the UK and US, say signatories including Prof. Olivier de Schutter, a former UN special rapporteur on the right to food… Olivier de Schutter At a time when the UK’s likely break with Europe is widely …

Özkan Taşpınar, president of the National Grain Council, told daily Hürriyet that Türkiye’s barley production will be around 8.1 million tonnes this year, while its need is 8.5 million tonnes. “I think the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) decided to import to complete the consumption amount,” he said. “Corn, barley and …

It started with a cortege march in the Safranbolu district of Karabük province on October 21 and various events are being held at the “6th Saffron Festival”. Harvesting of saffron, which is grown in the Safranbolu district of Karabük and called the “miracle plant” because it is used in many …