2022: 6th International Anatolian Agriculture, Food, Environment and Biology Congress, Kütahya/Türkiye

The 6^th International Anatolian Agriculture, Food, Environment and Biology Congress has been organized in Kütahya on 7-9 October 2022 to bring the developments in agriculture, food, environment and biology to the agenda and to enable new collaborations. It hosted by Kütahya Municipality under the leadership of Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Kütahya Dumlupınar University and The Turkish Journal of Agriculture - Food Science and Technology (TURJAF), organized by Turkish Science and Technology Publishing (TURSTEP). Presentations will be hybrid (face-to-face and online) at our congress.

In the congress, the participant scientists working in agriculture and related disciplines shared scientific developments, offered scientific solutions to international problems, increased their cooperation, and created scientific outcomes that will benefit humanity. Online oral and poster presentations in our congress were simultaneously broadcasted live on the TURJAF TV channel on YouTube and these videos will be available in the future in our channel. In this way, researchers who are interested in the subject can watch these presentations again on YouTube and TARGID's (www.targid.org) website later.

359 papers from 24 countries were presented to our congress. 147 of these papers came from foreign countries and 212 came from Türkiye. The countries of the participants who sent papers to the congress and the number of incoming articles are as follows; Algeria (7), Australia (1), Azerbaijan (18), Bangladesh (5), Ethiopia (6), Germany (1), Ghana (3), India (1), Iran (4), Iraq (3), Italy (1), Lebanon (1), Malaysia (2), Nepal (1), Nigeria (30), Pakistan (42), Poland (2), Rawalpindi (1), Romania (2), Rwanda (10), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (3), USA (2), and Türkiye (212).

As the host of the congress, the Mayor of Kütahya Prof. Dr. Alim Işık, and the chairmen of the Congress Prof. Dr. Hasan Eleroğlu, Prof. Dr. Muhammet Dönmez, Porf. Dr. Sedat Karaman, Prof. Dr. Zeliha Selamoğlu, TURJAF editors Prof. Dr. Hasan Eleroğlu and Prof. Dr. Ahmet Şekeroğlu have undertaken important duties in the organization and successful progression of the congress. Additionally, Asst. Profs. Mustafa Duman, Burak Şen and Emre Aksoy have taken responsibilities as the secretary of the congress. Finally, Res. Asst. Mustafa Güzel, Yunus Emre Şentürk, Brian Tainika and Mustafa Özcan from the "CNS Congress Organizations" company helped with the congress organization. We would like to thank the Mayor of Kütahya Prof. Dr. Alim Işık, and all our stakeholders and all scientists who participated and supported the congress.