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Ahmet Kaya, Chairman of the Egg Producers Association of Ordu Province, said that they take orders for 1 million eggs per week, but their weekly production capacity is about 600 thousand. "We were looking for a place to sell eggs in previous years, now we do not have such a problem. We hope to reach the target of 1 million eggs a week in the upcoming period," Ahmet Kaya said. Farmers producing organic eggs in more than 100 farms in 19 districts in Ordu cannot meet the orders received in recent days. Farms have been established in many districts after the chickens (chicken that will enter the laying period) distributed in the city within the scope of "Organic Egg Production Development Project" approximately 3 years ago. In Ordu province, where hazelnut and kiwi agriculture is also common, efforts to increase egg production began to bear fruit. Ahmet Kaya, the Chairman of Ordu Egg Producers Association, told the AA (Anatolian Agency) reporter at the egg pac...

Turkey Sheep and Goat Breeders' Association (TÜDKİYEB) Chairman Nihat Çelik, during the conversation meeting with journalists, said that they were very pleased with Digital Agriculture Market (DİTAP) which will carry the entire chain of food production and consumption to the digital platform, to be put into force by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Stating that DİTAP will eliminate the intermediaries, especially in the red meat sector, Çelik noted, "Carcass lamb meat, which comes out of the producer for 45 liras, is offered to consumers at prices ranging from 60 to 105 liras. Neither the manufacturer nor the citizen can win here, only the middleman. With this system, intermediaries will be completely eliminated." "Meat should be included in Ramadan packages" Indicating that in a meeting with Minister of Agriculture Bekir Pakdemirli, they also demanded meat to be included in Ramadan packages. Explaining that Minister Pakdemirli leant towards ...

Turkey ’s flower growers are looking for new foreign markets as demand has dropped significantly because of the global pandemic. The industry’s exports stood at 107 million dollars last year and growers had initially set a higher revenue target of 125 million dollars for 2020, however the coronavirus outbreak shattered their hopes. Antalya, on the Mediterranean coast, is the centre of flower growing business in Turkey, has been hit particularly hard from the fallout from the pandemic. The growers in the city ship flowers, such as carnations, and gerbera, to a wide range of countries, including the U.K, Germany, Ukraine and Romania. “The industry is suffering greatly from the pandemic. We even want to distribute flowers for free, but people do not accept this offer out of fear that they may get infected with the virus. The closure of hotels was also another blow to the sector. We had to let the flowers rot,” said İsmail Yılmaz, the Head of Flower Exporters’ Association. He no...

The cultivated acreage in sorghum grain and sorghum silage are increasing in Europe. The choice of variety being a determining success factor, more and more farmers are turning to star-sorghum: the hybrids proposed by European seed companies. In order to meet the market needs, the acreage dedicated to seed production in the EU 28 is also increasing: + 58% in 2020/21 (1,705 ha) compared to 2019/2020 (1,080 ha), while it only reached 445 ha in 2016/17! Sorghum seed breeding acreage in the EU... The main sorghum-producing countries in Europe For 2020 sowings, the volume of available seed for European hybrid sorghum is estimated at 454,000 doses (down 9% from the previous year). At the same time, demand on the EU market is estimated at 325,000 doses and exports to third countries are estimated to increase by 51% (65,000 doses have been shipped for sowing in 2020). Thanks to their know-how and dynamism, European seed breeders will be able to meet this demand. The low leve...

Turkey has earned around 1.84 billion dollars (TL 13 billion) from hazelnut exports from September 2019 to April 2020, increasing 50.9 percent versus the same period in the previous season, a regional trade union announced on Monday. The Black Sea Hazelnut and Products Exporters' Association reported that Turkey's hazelnut exports reached 277,281 tons in the first eight months of the season, which starts in September and ends in August. In the eight-month period last season, hazelnut exports were 210,600 tons... With nearly 77 percent of total exports, the European Union (EU) continued to be the top market for Turkey's hazelnut exports. The union's figures said that 36.9 percent of the country's hazelnut exports were processed products worth 657.5 million dollars, while the rest were raw hazelnuts. Turkey is the largest hazelnut exporter globally... It has over 179,893 decares of hazelnut trees and produces between 500,000 and 900,000 tons of hazelnu...

Within the scope of combating adulteration, the carbon value (minus 23 and below) was determined for the secretion, flower and mixture honey other than pine honey. If this value is above the specified limit, it will be possible to understand that corn sugar is added to honey. With the new Honey Communiqué, honey that has not been heat treated and pollen removed has also been defined as "raw honey". The criteria of the pine honey, 90 percent of world production realized in Turkey, also has been set for the first time. Thus, defining for the first time in Turkey's pine honey, a study is carried out to make an international definition within the framework of ISO (International Standarts of Organizations). Consumer not to be deceived... Chairman of Turkey Beekeepers' Association (TAB) Ziya Şahin said that they have been making great efforts in order to defend the honour of pine honey for 15 years as the sector. Şahin said, "If we are the leader in the wor...

Dean of Düzce University Faculty of Agriculture Prof. Dr. Sevcan Öztemiz said, "As long as human beings exist, it should never be forgotten after this epidemic that will also require food based on agriculture." With the coronavirus, which affects all the countries of the world and threatens human health, it was once again understood how strategic and vital sector agriculture is, which meets the food requirements required for people to survive. Stating that agriculture and food will be much more important than today, Dr. Sevcan Öztemiz said, " "Agriculture sector which has come to the agenda in recent years with factors such as population growth, global warming and climate change and reduction of water resources, now takes place in global agenda through pandemic, sustainable production and food security supply more strongly." Öztemiz noted, "Based on the general assumption that such problems will be experienced globally from now on, it will be m...

Press release... A coronavirus warning came from experts for the livestock industry... Emre Pınar Kılıç, a member of the Izmir Chamber of Commerce (İZTO) Agriculture and Livestock Commission and veterinary surgeon Gürhan Karaçaylı, said that the coronavirus could survive in the summer months and that measures should be taken.  “A type of virus predominantly seen in animals” Underlining that measures should be taken in the summer period, İZTO Agriculture and Livestock Commission Member and Arkhe Agriculture Partner Emre Pınar Kılıç said that coronavirus, which needs a host organism to live in the summer, can survive in animals. Stating that farmers working in the agricultural sector should maintain their social distance, Kılıç said, "Our farmers, who continue their dialogue with animals, especially in animal husbandry, are already in close contact with animals or working in the stable; They should protect themselves and their families, considering the possibility of inf...

First cotton seed was brought together with soil in Menemen Plain of İzmir... Menemen Plain of Izmir, one of Turkey's major production cotton centres, first cotton seeds of the season met with the soil. Meanwhile being exempt from curfew, farmers continue to produce. One of Turkey's major cotton production centres, in Izmir Menemen Plain, cotton seeds were brought together with the soil. Stating that 120 thousand decares of cotton will be planted in the district, Metin Karagöl, the Chairman of Menemen Chamber of Agriculture, noted that the yield expectations are 60 thousand tons. While the new type of coronavirus outbreak affects social life negatively, it also affects the world economy and trade. However, the most important sector for Turkey in agriculture, farmers will continue to selflessly without interrupting production. Exempt from curfew, farmers keep on to producing. Farmers in the Menemen Plain of Izmir, one of the leading cotton production centres of ...

Lockdown has not affected backbone of Indian economy, says Agriculture Minister; 60 pc of India’s economy is closed, but things in agricultural sector are moving. Presenting a very positive outlook for the sector, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, today, said despite the lockdown in the country, the sowing of summer crops had increased to 57.07 lakh hectare, which is more than 38 per cent over the area sown last year. “Even in such trying circumstances and conditions, sowing has not decreased. In other related activities, the sector is making good progress due to the good practices adopted by the government and hard work by farmers,” Tomar said while speaking on issues related to harvesting and sowing in the country amid the Covid-19 lockdown. The Minister said despite the lockdown and adverse conditions, harvesting had also not been affected. “In GDP, the contribution of agriculture remains 3.7 per cent, and I am sure it will not be affected much in the coming days ...

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli said that they closely followed 50 products especially during the coronavirus period. Pakdemirli stated, "We are following all of these products' production, harvest, exports, imports and taxes, etc. But too much onion used to be exported, its prices turned to normal while we restricted the export of it. We did the same with lemon. If we open the export of lemon today, the price will increase to 30 TL. We will not allow it to be exported at least until September." Expressing that they were just about to enter the harvest period at the time of emerging pandemic, Pakdemirli said, "Turkey is a country which can be self-sufficient in agriculture. Do not worry. Not only we've done studies for the harvest time, we have planned for the plantings of next year." Normalisation process... "In addition, we did not want to accumulate and queue in the markets, as in other countries. Before we started th...

Tea growers in the eastern Black Sea region are desperately looking for workers to harvest tea on their land plants after authorities have introduced curbs on travel and limited entrance to and exit from the cities. Potential tea plantation workers are offered a salary of 6,900 Turkish Liras (around 1000 dollars) and all social security benefits. Recently, the officials restricted movements of some 100,000 people, who live in Istanbul but want to travel to the Black Sea provinces, to harvest tea in their land plots there, in a bid to curb the coronavirus spread in the region. On top of that, this year some 40,000 foreign workers will not be able to come to the region to pick tea as borders are closed. Special “harvest commissions,” under the supervision of the district governors, will be set up in those Black Sea regions to ensure that the tea harvest is not interrupted this year. In the province of Rize , the municipalities, the chambers of agriculture and growers’ asso...