With benefits such as year-round favourable weather in the Jordan Valley, Jordan is self-sufficient in a wide variety of agricultural products and is a net exporter of many fruits and vegetables, making agriculture a substantial contributor to national trade. The kingdom is, however, one of the driest countries in the world and suffers from...
Robot tractors, geothermal greenhouses and cloned trees are part of the farming sector’s push to modernise, but more innovation is needed. The hot trend in the automotive industry may be self-driving cars, but a more practical and productive application has quietly taken place for years: driverless tractors. Turkey’s farmers can already turn to...
A favourable climate and proximity to both affluent Europe and the dry Middle East make Turkey a global breadbasket and a natural destination for investment. Foreign direct investment in the agriculture sector reached a record high of $2.1bn by October 2012, a 150-fold increase from a decade ago, according to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture...
The expanding population, at about 1.3% per year, and changing demographics have helped Turkey’s food and beverage sector outpace global growth and make it a key market for investment. According to state statistics, a quarter of household spending goes to food, drinks and tobacco. Worldwide, the food and beverage market is estimated to be...
A drive to restructure Turkey’s agricultural sector includes ambitious plans to expand fruit and vegetable production and is set to open the door for foreign investors looking to meet demand back home. Buoyed by favourable geographic conditions and abundant rainfall, Turkey’s agricultural sector contributed $62bn to the economy in 2012, after...
Identified early on as a potentially lucrative source of revenue, aquaculture has taken centre stage in the reengineering of Brunei Darussalam’s fisheries industry. With a shift away from capture fisheries amidst growing restrictions on trawlers, fish and shrimp revenues are expected to reach BN$200m ($156m) by 2023, over half the fisheries industry...
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