Turkey: Idle lands in Ordu are opened to agriculture

Published 2021년 11월 28일

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The Ordu Metropolitan Municipality, under the leadership of Mayor Mehmet Hilmi Güler, has initiated several agricultural projects aimed at revitalizing the local economy and promoting sustainable agriculture. This includes the rejuvenation of idle lands for cultivation, such as the one in İkizce district where soybeans were planted, marking the start of cultivation on land that had been fallow since 1981. This initiative is part of a larger collaboration with the Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry to assess and utilize idle agricultural lands, covering 14 thousand decares in total. The project has seen the distribution of 15 tons of seeds across 19 districts, with the aim of boosting income for local producers through the cultivation of soybeans and other crops. The early results show a successful harvest, indicating a step forward in enhancing the economic prospects of the region's agriculture sector.
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Ordu Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Dr. Agriculture and stockbreeding, which is among the income generating projects of Mehmet Hilmi Güler, has grown day by day and has become a new hope for the citizens living in the countryside. Producing projects to revive the city's economy and develop agriculture, the Metropolitan Municipality also supports the breeding sheep, breeding geese, breeding buffalo, greenhouse vegetable cultivation and cut flower sector, as well as bringing the unused lands into production. Within the scope of the "Evaluation of Idle Agricultural Lands Project" carried out in cooperation with the Metropolitan Municipality and the Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry in İkizce district, the soybean planted on the land that has not been cultivated since 1981 was harvested. A total of 14 thousand decares of idle land was put into production Ahmet Ultav, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Livestock Services of Ordu Metropolitan Municipality, said ...
Source: Haber7

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