WHAT IS A DIGITAL PRODUCT PASSPORT?
A Digital Product Passport is an electronic record system designed to enable tracking and reliable verification of a product throughout its life cycle. This system can track the progress of the product from production, through the supply chain, to end-users and even the recycling process. The Digital Product Passport ensures the product’s authenticity and the...
What is GREENWASHING?
Greenwashing is a term used when a company or organization claims to be environmentally friendly or sustainable, but fails to provide sufficient evidence to support these claims or distorts the facts.Many companies are using green marketing strategies to create a better image and increase their sales by claiming to be environmentally friendly or sustainable, as...
PESTICIDES
WHAT ARE PESTICIDES? WHAT ARE THEIR TYPES, EFFECTS, AND HARMS? The substances and methods used to eliminate the harmful effects of bacteria, viruses, and pests are called “pesticides,” which include chemicals, some organic compounds, disinfectants, and similar substances.Pesticides are classified according to their chemical structures and functions, and include insecticides (which kill insects), herbicides (which...
What is GLOBAL G.A.P.?
The rapidly increasing world population, changing eating habits and food needs, negative changes in the ecological balance, increasingly diverse methods of processing agricultural products for consumption, and the new agricultural techniques, have brought some problems with securing food that is safe for human health. However, especially in recent years, with the increasing consumer awareness, products...
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)
These practices encompass all the production and marketing stages from soil to table. They are a chain of practices that are produced without harmful chemical and physical residues and taking into account the ecological balance, without causing environmental pollution. During the production in Good Agricultural Practices, the legal regulations of the country where the product...
What is Digital Agriculture?
Digital Agriculture refers to the use of digital technology in agriculture. In today’s world where digital technology has become widespread in every aspect of life, technological products for agricultural production have also been developed to serve many different purposes. One of the most important areas of use of digital technology in agriculture is to prevent...
THE TECHNOLOGY ERA IN TURKISH AGRICULTURE
Agriculture has undergone a radical transformation in the last 50 years. Advances in machinery have expanded the scale, speed, and productivity of agricultural equipment, allowing for more land to be farmed more efficiently. Seeds, irrigation, and fertilizers have also greatly improved, helping farmers increase their yields.To achieve the next leap in productivity, agriculture now requires...
CARBON FOOTPRINT IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
WHAT IS CARBON FOOTPRINT? It is the carbon dioxide equivalent of the damage that human activities cause to the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced.These studies can be individual, institutional, regional, organizational, etc. focused. Measurement studies that take into account a certain period of time are generally done on a year-by-year...
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