Turkey: From production to export, agricultural products are grown from the seedlings produced from local seeds

While some greenhouse growers in the village of Gümüşdere in Sarıyer provide their families with natural agriculture with the support of the state on the seedlings they obtain from local seeds, they offer natural products to the residents of Istanbul, from producer to consumer, without intermediaries. This year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry launched 9 crop production projects for farmers in Istanbul, within the scope of the "Project for Enabling the Use of Agricultural Lands" within the scope of the "Increasing Agricultural Production Project". Within the scope of the "Project to Disseminate and Improve the Use of Domestic and National Vegetable Seeds by Women's Hands", which is among the projects put into practice, local and national seeds met with the soil by the women farmers engaged in greenhouse agriculture (greenhouse cultivation). Within the scope of the project, 37,840 seedlings produced from local seeds, including 8,160 cucumbers, 7,280 tomatoes and 22,400 ...