SAKARYA, Turkey After a three-year wait, Turkey’s quince has earned a geographical indication, a type of intellectual property right which identifies a good as belonging to a territory. The yellow fruit that is often mistaken for a pear grows in Turkey’s Sakarya province and is exported to many European countries. …

Increased water consumption due to the coronavirus outbreak could cause a drought as precipitation remains below the seasonal averages across the country, an expert warned Friday. According to Yusuf Demir, a professor of agriculture and irrigation at Samsun’s Ondokuz Mayıs University, residential water consumption increased by 60% throughout the country …

Surrounded by three seas, there is plenty of fish in the sea for Turks. Yet, the meat-crazy nation lags behind other countries in fish consumption. Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli lamented that fish consumption has plateaued in the past two decades and urged the public to eat more …

“Three Challenges” for organic movement in Turkey. Organic integrity… There should be real/physical integrity in organic “from farm to fork” with whole stakeholders but not only on the paper. Of course, the most important key words are “transparency”, “traceability”, “trustworthy” among stakeholders in order to supply integrity in whole chain. …

“Digital Farming Management Tool Market Acceptance Solutions” İZMİR (Aegean Agency) – Project proposal of “Digital Farming Management Tool Market Acceptance Solutions (d-FaMToMAS)”, of which Aegean University is a project partner to be presented to Full Proposal by passing the TUBITAK and European Union eliminations among 112 projects, took place among …

Another novelty in its sector from Pınar Meat: “TSE Covid-19 Safe Production Certificate” Pınar Meat (Et) became the first Integrated Meat products company to achieve the “Covid-19 Safe Production Certificate” by meeting the criteria in the guide prepared by the Turkish Standards Institute (TSE). Stating that the high quality, hygiene …

“Blueberry” exports started from Antalya to Hong Kong. Gökhan Karaca, Antalya Deputy Director of Provincial Agriculture and Forestry, said that they are carrying out studies to increase product diversity in Antalya province, which is also an agricultural region. Emphasizing that they have made a significant progress in the production of …

Karavelioğlu: We increased our agricultural machinery exports 20 times in 17 years Kutlu Karavelioğlu, President of the Machinery Exporters’ Association (MAİB), stated that agricultural machinery is a sector that attracts foreign capital to the country and that exports of agricultural machinery increased by 20 times in 17 years. Speaking at …

Speaking at the Dry Apricot Board meeting within the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, Ramazan Özcan, Chairman of Malatya Commodity Exchange, said that the construction of 30 thousand square metre licensed warehouse with a capacity of 6 thousand tons is finished. Ramazan Özcan gave the information that the …

17 June 2020, Rome – The FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu today delivered closing remarks in the final session of the Joint Meeting of the UN agency’s Programme and Finance Committees. Over the last 10 days, Members of both committees discussed programmatic and budgetary matters as well as substantive thematic work subjects …