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27 October

FIVE WAYS IFAD IS HELPING TO REDUCE RURAL POVERTY IN AN AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE…

The very first Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty by 2030… Today, seven years after the goals were agreed and on the heels of a global pandemic, conflict and economic crises, a world without poverty seems out of reach. The World Bank estimates that, by the end of 2022, 685 million …

27 October

TURKTRAKTOR MANUFACTURES 1 MILLIONTH TRACTOR!

TürkTraktör, which manufactures nearly 50 thousand tractors per year with a localization rate of over 90 percent, has unloaded its 1 millionth vehicle from the band. Aykut Özüner TürkTraktör’s General Manager Aykut Özüner said that TürkTraktör produced its first tractor in 1955 and the 500 thousandth tractor was unloaded in …

27 October

“AGRICULTURAL CONSULTANCY” TO BE ESTABLISHED…

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, …

26 October

CROPS TO BE SUPPORTED LISTED BY THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE…

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 …

26 October

AQUACULTURE INNOVATION TO TAKE CENTRE STAGE AT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES IN TRABZON, TÜRKİYE…

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 …

25 October

COTTON HARVEST STARTS IN IZMIR’S BAKIRCAY PLAIN!

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 …

25 October

“WE INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF AGRICULTURAL SUPPORTS TO 54 BILLION DOLLARS IN 2023”

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 …

25 October

OVER 1 MILLION TONNES OF BEET HARVEST EXPECTED IN SIVAS REGION!

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 …

24 October

R&D CENTRES TO BE OPENED IN THE FIELD OF AGRICULTURE!

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 …

24 October

OLIVIER DE SCHUTTER: CHARITABLE FOOD IS A STICKING PLASTER!

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 …