Turkey Ministry of agriculture updated its organic farming regulations with the relevant EU standards to harmonise and released it on Friday.
The regulations cover a range of activities from organic farm inputs for storage and marketing.
The regulations have included more comprehensive descriptions on organic farming and a definition of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Accordingly, a GMO is a substance with GMO content consisting of GMOs or a GMO derivative.
The new rules create also fines and other sanctions for violations.
A prior condition for organic farming has been stopped. Provision structures are found at least one to three kilometres of motorways, heavy industrial equipment, reactors, hydraulic and thermal power plants, mines and public dump bodies.
From now on taxes and/or certification will agencies decide whether organic farming at a specific location can be done where contamination can exist.Such agencies to monitor agricultural activities in accordance with a contract with the farmer.
Buildings, equipment and tools used in conventional production may have washed and cleaned with materials that are specified by the regulations before they are used for farming purposes.Farmers are not for the creation or former organic farming experience erforderlich.Eine single farm can produce similar organic and inorganic crops.The use of GMOs reproduction materials is prohibited.
Further, industrial and urban waste water and sewer water can be used in organic farming and irrigation water should be of a quality cause no contamination or deterioration in soil quality or contributing, Erosion.Hand picking tools must be hygienic.
The regulations include bred for organic, inside poultry houses and feed and other issues on poultry including, such as limits on the number of animals live in a single specific size and the amount of time chickens to natural and artificial light will be suspended on a day.
There are rules, that poultry and cattle werden.LKW drivers are conducted without the stress on animals quickly and transfers breaks requires every eight hours to feed and water of your animal freight.
See the other parameters the flight radius which organic bee farms should not more than three kilometres from your hives and beekeepers may not, in conventional bee-keeping in the same area to engagieren.Alle nectar and pollen sources in the bee house consists of organic plants or natural flora.
Farmers are responsible for the registration of all kinds of inputs and materials in their organic production.
The new rules prohibiting label use of such prefixes as "Organic", "Eco" and "Org" or other connotative or produce package design on inorganic.
Furthermore, ionic radiation can not used to process organic products and the packages must bear the title, code number, certificate number and logo of the authorized agency.
Organic products will be stored in a way, where you identify and produce with other inorganic or substances mix.
Sanctions against those who violate the terms of the regulations to bring up to a five-year ban from organic farming.
The regulations define the forms and types of logos, to be printed on the packages of organic products.
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