Balıkesir Burhaniye Transformed into a Seedling Production Center

In the Burhaniye district, retired colonel Selahattin Güvenç, who started stevia production with just a few seedlings 13 years ago, has achieved positive results and turned the district into a seedling production center. Güvenç has also started tobacco seedling production this year. Selahattin Güvenç, a 75-year-old retired colonel, continues stevia (sugar herb) production from Paraguay that he began 13 years ago and has started tobacco seedling production this year. Selahattin Güvenç has turned Burhaniye into a seedling production center. Güvenç continues seedling production in 3 greenhouses he established on the Çoruk village road. Producing hundreds of thousands of stevia seedlings each year, Güvenç also produced 620,000 tobacco seedlings this year. Selahattin Güvenç noted that stevia seedlings will be distributed to farmers on Marmara Island, and tobacco seedlings will be planted in villages in Yenice district of Çanakkale. As an exemplary seedling producer, retired colonel ...