Sustainable agriculture

Farmers and agricultural producers from across Europe have once again converged in Brussels to protest in front of the European institutions, escalating tensions with authorities. The demonstration coincides with a meeting of the EU Council on Agriculture and Fisheries, attended by agriculture ministers from all member states, including Bulgaria's Minister Kiril Vatev.

Greenpeace has submitted 10 proposals to rekindle agricultural production on the Thessaly plain in central Greece, which was devastated by cataclysmic floods in September. 

With an average age of farmers estimated at 58, Türkiye, as in the rest of the world, is facing an aging crisis in the farming and agriculture sector, an expert has warned, suggesting that incentive policies to encourage young people living in cities to return to villages and engage in farming practices are need of the hour.

Although eight in 10 tourism businesses in Greece have already implemented or intend to soon adopt at least one measure of environmental and socio-sustainability, one in two players do not engage in strategic partnerships to promote sustainability according to a survey by the Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation (INSETE).

The Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has announced that it will provide smart agriculture training to a total of 43,000 farmers in order to ensure the sustainable utilization of natural resources and promote water conservation in agriculture.

Vertical farming, a type of agriculture practice that has the ability to produce up to 40 times more produce than conventional farming techniques, is currently seeing a rapid expansion under the leadership of the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry.

Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists warned yesterday.

He has used biomass to engineer renewable chemicals that are essential to the production of widely-used materials from plastics to rubber-based products

Organic farmers are preparing a protest for the Ministry of Agriculture because most of them have not received the European funds they are allocated to under the Rural Development Program, the BNR announced. The National Bio-Association has said that they believe that officials are blamed for lack of funds and that the Ministry of Agriculture is complicit in draining European money.

The International Conference on Conservation Agriculture began on July 5 in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stated.