Şenol Önal; “In The Interest of Our National Food Safety, Maintenance and Repair Services for Agricultural Machinery Should Never Be Interrupted!
Şenol ÖNAL, TARMAKBİR Executive Chairman, last week issued a statement about the scope of the emergency measures taken for COVID-19 as infections increase dramatically. ÖNAL stated that “In the days ahead, in case new restrictive measures are taken in order to ensure our national food safety, free movement is vital not only for after-sales services departments of our agricultural machinery industry but also for the production units that provide goods to these departments and the authorized services of the companies”.
Exports Continued to Rise in February!
The foreign trade data in the Machinery Sector were announced recently. The total value of exports in February increased by 13% compared to 2019 and reached 170 million USD. This value is all-time high in the Ag-Machinery industry. These figures do not include export of tractor components / parts. With this data, our sector ranked 5th among 22 sectors in general machinery export.
The Biggest Trade Show Konya Expo 2020 postponed as Corona Virus Outbreak Spread!
KONYA AGRICULTURE 2020, 18th Agriculture, Agricultural Mechanization and Field Technologies Trade Fair, which is planned to be held at KTO-TÜYAP Konya International Fair Center between 17-21 March 2020, with the cooperation of our institution TARMAKBİR and TÜYAP, was postponed to 02-06 June 2020 in accordance with the joint decision of the organizers that supported the fair in order to ensure that the heightened risk of coronavirus (COVID-19) -that affected almost the whole world- and all the threads do not pose a risk on public health and safety in line with intense demand from our members.
Turkish Tractor Production Resumed Its Upward Trend in January!
According to the preliminary data released for the first month of 2020, Turkish tractor production rose by 104% in January compared with the same time last year. Turkey’s tractor production grew more than expected in this period.
