Tag Archives: Heirloom seeds

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı said that 95 percent of the food need is met from the soil and that the Ministry is trying to use the soil more efficiently. Minister Yumaklı stated that the General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies (TAGEM) has so far developed 953 …

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı stated that the ministry’s work on ancestral (heirloom) seeds continues and that 37 types of ancestral seeds registered so far have been taken under protection in gene banks. İbrahim Yumaklı Minister Yumaklı also said that agricultural production should be increased through efficient production. …

Press release… The harvest of “Çeşme Melon”, which has been grown with heirloom (ancestral) seeds for centuries in Çeşme District, continues. İzmir Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry, Mustafa Özen, also attended the harvest of Çeşme Melon, which has a unique aroma and can last for 5-6 months after harvesting, …

Saving the heirloom seeds will be eligible for the grants… Within the scope of the financial support programme of the Central Anatolia Development Agency (ORAN), a total of 15 million TL will be provided to the projects to be implemented for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry in the …

With the “Local Seed Meetings” project, heirloom local seed varieties, which are in the hands of  farmers, have been taken under protection in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Thanks to this project launched under the auspices of Emine Erdoğan, the wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 1131 heirloom local …