Breaking news on Turkey medicinal plants are brought to the economy

Published 2021년 5월 15일

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The Muğla Metropolitan Municipality has launched a Medicinal Aromatic Plants and Local Seed Center with a distillation facility in 2018, which has since produced essential oils and herbal hydrosols from 10 types of medicinal-aromatic plants. This initiative aims to provide additional income to citizens by processing essential oils from plants collected or produced naturally. The municipality has produced 188.5 liters of essential oil and 15 tons of plant hydrosol so far. The city, which is predominantly agricultural with 60% of its population residing in rural areas, is dedicated to enhancing the income of farmers by adding value to their produce through various innovative services and projects.

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Attracting attention with its investments in agriculture and producers in Muğla, and bringing innovative projects to Muğla, the Metropolitan Municipality put Medicinal Aromatic Plants and Local Seed Center into service in 2018. With the distillation facility established within the center, it produced essential oils and herbal hydrosol from 10 kinds of medicinal-aromatic plants, mainly lavender, thyme, eucalyptus, mint, sage, both produced by the producers and collected from nature. The distillation facility established by Muğla Metropolitan Municipality in Yerkesik-Yeniköy Neighborhood to extract essential oil from plants produced within the scope of the Koku Valley project enables citizens who used to collect or produce medicinal and aromatic plants from nature with their own means to obtain high value-added products and increase their income. Muğla Metropolitan Municipality also performs periodic and local essential oil quantity analyzes of medicinal-aromatic plants grown or ...

Source: Sondakika