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Işınsu Kestelli: Digital transformation in Turkish agriculture is inevitable

Işınsu Kestelli, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Izmir Commodity Exchange (ITB) and Izmir Agriculture Technology Centre (ITTM) Girişim AŞ (Entrepreneurship inc.), stated that digital transformation is of great importance for agriculture in Türkiye to achieve a sustainable and competitive structure. Işınsu Kestelli Kestelli underlined that Turkish agriculture faces …

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Project Idea Competition ‘Agriculture Rising with Young People’

The award ceremony of the “Project Idea Competition Agriculture Rising with Young People” organised by Izmir Commodity Exchange was held at AGROEXPO Fair. Mustafa Şahin The importance of young people being the architects of the future in agriculture was emphasised. The award ceremony of the competition was held at Fair …

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Izmir Agricultural Technology Centre becomes the pride of the region!

Press release… Izmir Agricultural Technology Centre, which was launched by Izmir Commodity Exchange with the slogan ‘Silicon Valley of Agriculture’, has been entitled to become a European Digital Innovation Centre with the ‘AgrInnovate EDIH’ consortium coordinated by ITTM Agricultural Technologies Venture Inc. Işınsu Kestelli The representatives of the European Digital …

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Işınsu Kestelli: With the OASIS project, we want to get more added value out of the olive industry

Press release… Great Success from the Innovative and Sustainable Clustering in Olive Value Chain Project (OASIS)… The OASIS Project was one of the two projects entitled to be financed under the European Agri-Food Sustainability Cluster Partnerships call under the Single Market Programme (SMP COSME). Işınsu Kestelli Işınsu Kestelli, Chairwoman of …

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Ercan Korkmaz: We should encourage the production and consumption of pulses

Press release… Ercan Korkmaz, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Izmir Commodity Exchange, in his written statement, said that in the last 10 years, the amount of pulses production and consumption in our country has increased. Ercan Korkmaz “Consumption, which was 1.12 million tonnes in 2012, soared by …

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IZMIR COMMODITY EXCHANGE DELEGATION PARTICIPATED IN THE ‘COTTON ROAD’ EVENT…

Press release… IZMIR COMMODITY EXCHANGE DELEGATION PARTICIPATED IN THE 6TH MEDITERRANEAN COTTON ROAD… The sixth Mediterranean Cotton Road event, which was organised this year to bring together cotton sector stakeholders, was held on Monday, 20 November 2023 in Thessaloniki, Greece, in cooperation with the Izmir Commodity Exchange, the Greek Cotton …

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BULENT UCAK: HARD DAYS IN WHITE GOLD AS THE HARVEST SEASON APPROACHES

Press release… While cotton prices abroad are at the level of 58-59 liras, the price of 45-46 liras in the country makes producers brooding. Unprecedented negativities threaten the sustainability of cotton production… As the 2023/24 harvest season approaches, cotton, which is called white gold, is experiencing difficult days. Despite the …

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“BORSAKARASI” YIELDS ITS FIRST PRODUCT!

Press release… The study initiated by Izmir Commodity Exchange (ITB), the pioneer of firsts, in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Manisa Viticulture Research Institute has yielded its first fruit. The grape variety named “Borsakarası” was included in the National Variety list. In 2019, the first products were …

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“ELIDAS, AS A ROLE MODEL, WILL CONTINUE ITS JOURNEY WITH A CAPACITY OF 35000 TONNES”

Press release… Aegean Agricultural Products (Ege Tarım Ürünleri) Licensed Warehousing Inc. (ELİDAŞ) was founded in 2011 under the leadership of İzmir Commodity Exchange by 19 corporate partners to develop licensed warehousing system and cotton trade in Türkiye and offers an effective trading opportunity to the sector with the electronic product …

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“WE SHOULD EXPORT MUCH MORE GEOGRAPHICALLY INDICATED AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS”

Stating that registered products are sold at an average price of 2.1 times higher than unregistered ones in the European Union, İzmir Commodity Exchange Chairwoman Işınsu Kestelli said, “Turkiye exported 25 billion dollars of agricultural products in 2021. However, if we can evaluate our potential in the field of geographical …

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