İsmail Uğural
July 10, 2020 Extension - Information
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Press release… Ankara- July 10, 2020 – Union of Turkish Agricultural Chambers (TZOB) President Şemsi Bayraktar said that advance payments left to preferance in agreements of production and purchasing tobacco between companies and tobacco. Bayraktar said, “Tobacco producers are waiting for an advance. While advances given every year are not …
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İsmail Uğural
July 10, 2020 Extension - Information
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Black Sea Agricultural Research Institute Director Assoc. Dr. Kibar Ak, in his written statement, said that Turkey’s annual 20 million tonnes of wheat production consists of 2.6 percent of world production and Turkey is a self-sufficient country in this respect. Pointing out that the contribution of domestic and national varieties …
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İsmail Uğural
July 9, 2020 Global News
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EU exports 2.2M tons of chocolate in 2019… Germany was largest chocolate exporter in 2019 with 640,000 tons of exports… EU countries exported 2.2 million tons of chocolate and chocolate bars in 2019, the 27-member bloc’s statistical authority said on Tuesday. Germany was the largest chocolate exporter, selling 640,000 tons …
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İsmail Uğural
July 9, 2020 Climate Change and Environment
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Istanbul Technical University Lecturer and Chairwoman of Sustainable Production and Consumption Association (SÜT-D) Professor Dr. Filiz Karaosmanoğlu made a statement for the 4th of July, International Cooperative Day. Pointing out the important position of the cooperatives in the economy, Dr. Karaosmanoğlu said that this year, the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) …
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İsmail Uğural
July 9, 2020 Agribusiness
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Press release… Ödemiş (a district of İzmir province) Chamber of Commerce (ÖTO) held a press conference on Wednesday, 8 July at the ÖTO Meeting Hall on the transfer of the ‘Bozdağ Chestnut Candy’ Geographical Indication to the Chamber. The Chairman of ÖTO Rıfat Eriş, Board Members Sadık Güllü and Şevket …
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İsmail Uğural
July 9, 2020 Renewable Energy
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Geothermal Power Plants Investors’ Association (JESDER) Chairman Ufuk Şentürk said that they aimed to increase the geothermal based agricultural production five-fold over the next 5 years in Turkey. Stating that geothermal agriculture is the subject of secondary investment after electricity generation, JESDER Chairman Ufuk Şentürk said, “Site allocation studies have …
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İsmail Uğural
July 9, 2020 Foreign Trade
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Saffet Kalyoncu, Chairman of the Board of the Eastern Black Sea Exporters Association, said in his written statement that despite the effects of the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic, exports from Trabzon province did not lose speed and it was almost overwhelmed by the effect of the normalization steps …
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İsmail Uğural
July 8, 2020 Food Waste and Losses
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08 July 2020, Ankara, Turkey – FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Turkey organized a special session today with the Union of the Municipalities of Turkey (TBB) as the part of the joint SAVE YOUR FOOD campaign. Launched in May, the Campaign released Turkey’s first National Strategy and Action Plan on the Prevention …
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İsmail Uğural
July 8, 2020 Agrimachinery
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Press release… SlurryKat adds new ‘Premium Plus’ range of trailing shoe injectors A NEW Premium Plus range of trailing shoe slurry injectors has just been launched by manure handling equipment experts SlurryKat. The latest release comes hot on the heels of the previous successful launches of the Farmline trailing shoes …
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İsmail Uğural
July 8, 2020 Agribusiness
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Yield in sugar dry bean specific to Çamoluk district of Giresun province is expected to reach 100 tons this year. Çamoluk Chamber of Agriculture Chairman Ali Tatar told Anadolu Agency (AA) reporter they will begin harvesting the geographically indicated sugar dry beans produced by traditional methods next month. Stating that …
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