On May 20, Saturday at 6:00 p.m., the second guest of the Mahsul Meetings will be Prof. Dr İbrahim Ortaş. Ortaş, who has been conducting academic and practical studies in Çukurova for many years, will share his observations and experiences on the future of agricultural production and food. We will discuss the relationship between agriculture and the environment, changing farming practices, and the crops of the high-yield-oriented industrial agriculture practised intensively today in Çukurova.

İbrahim Ortaş: Born in 1960. In 1985, he graduated from Çukurova University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science. In the same year, he started to work as a researcher at Şanlıurfa Village Services Research Institute. In 1986, he worked as a responsible manager in an agricultural company in Ceyhan-Adana. He worked as a research assistant at Ç.Ü. Faculty of Agriculture, Soil Department and as a researcher at Hohenheim University in Germany. He received his doctorate education at the University of Reading in England. In 2002, he received the title of Professor and he is still working as a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Ç.Ü.