8/21/2010
Education campaign of Toros Agri, in addition to its various products and services contributing to the development of the agriculture sector, cover all the segments in the agriculture sector and is going on at full steam.
Including “women farmers” in the specific training programs, Toros Agri held its 3rd meeting in the conference hall of the new building of İzmir, Kiraz District Directorate of Agriculture. The program that was attended by 70 women farmers was instructed by Prof. Dr. Habil Çolakoğlu, Technical Counselor of Toros Agri. Habil Çolakoğlu presented practical suggestions for the possible production problems and cited the key points of effective agriculture.
Kiraz District Governor, Kiraz District Directorate of Agriculture and Chairwoman of the Executive Board of Toros Tarım and CEO of Tekfen Holding’s Agri Division Mrs. Esin Mete also attended the meeting. Addressing the women producers at the beginning of the program, Esin Mete underlined that, in the developing societies, the generations who have broader horizons could only be brought up by increasing the number of women with broader horizons and added that as Toros Agri, they had worked hard on this subject and announced that in addition to the training and education that they had already been supporting for many years, they wanted to contribute to the education of the women working in the agriculture sector and that these educational meetings for women farmers would continue.
As a first in the Turkish fertilizer sector, Toros Agri is aiming to increase the income level and standard of living of the farmer through the training they have been providing regularly since 1990 on increasing the product yield and the quality and application of agricultural techniques without any commercial interest.