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Recent Stunning developments in Chinese Agriculture

25/03/2021

According to the ”14. five-year plan” China plans to increase its research and development (R&D) spending by more than 7% per year. In fact, the increase in R&D expenditures from 0.7% of the annual gross national product (GNP) in 1995 to 2.2% in 2020 reveals China’s determination for development. Agriculture has always been one of… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Development Policy, Entwicklungspolitik

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EU’s Pesticide Use Restrictions Unite Plant Breeders in a Joint Project

12/10/2020

The EU has rolled up its sleeves for new restrictions on pesticide use. It is aimed to reduce the use of pesticide by half as of 2030. Since Germen wheat producers apply fungicides more than twice a year to winter wheat (average treatment frequency 2019: 2.19), it can be easily predicted how pesticide use restrictions… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Entwicklungspolitik, EU Priorities 2020, Health & Consumers, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev.

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The First Commercial Product of Genome Editing: Tilapia

19/01/2019

Agricultural production must continue by protecting the environment and ensuring sustainability. In this context, it is imperative to develop new genotypes continuously in plants, animals and microorganisms to increase quality and yield. Until recently, mutations and classical breeding techniques were sufficient to breed new varieties. At the end of the 20th century, tissue culture, gene… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Health & Consumers, Science & Policymaking

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What’s New in the World Seed Market?

01/01/2019

The first objective in seed business is to improve new varieties. To target farmers, seed companies have to provide the most desired cultivars and they must be best quality and perform maximum yield, resist to diseases-pests, heat-cold, drought etc. This can be achieved with plant breeding. Until recent years selection, hybridization, mutation, tissue culture, foreign… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Climate & Environment

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New Plant Breeding Technics Have Started to Bear Fruit

09/10/2018

It is imperative that we improve the new genotypes for sustainable plant and livestock production given the changes in demand and the environment. Until recently mutations and classical breeding techniques were sufficient to breed new varieties. At the end of the 20th century, tissue culture, gene transfer and other molecular biologic developments have entered the… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Climate & Environment, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Regional Policy, Science & Policymaking

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Nacikgoz

Agriculture, biotechnology, climate change, biofuel, science will not give opportunity to the food crisis

Nazimi Açıkgöz graduated from Ankara University in 1964 and earned his Ph D. degree at Munich Technical University in 1972. He then joined Ege University and worked there until his retirement in2009.

His rice breeding studies were supported by CENTO, NATO, IAEA and TUBITAK and at the end, a rice variety “TOAG92" has been registered. His studies on computer use in agriculture were on seed database management system and biostatistics. One of his packages TARIST (Agrostatistics) is still the only Turkish software in this area.

He is one of the founders of the “Seed Center” at Ege University, which has been directed between the years 1998-2004 by him. He was also one of the lead-author of World Bank’s IAASTD report.


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