Corn as the second crop in Mardin, Turkey is in the fields

After the wheat harvest in Mardin, the second crop, maize, has been planted. The President of Kızıltepe Cereals and Grain Farmers Association Mehmet Şerif Öter informed that the planting was done in 4 districts, on an area of 1.5 million decares. In the Mardin Plain, which has the fertile lands of Mesopotamia, corn was planted as the second product after the wheat harvest. As soon as the farmers in the Kızıltepe district finished their wheat harvest, the second crop began to plant corn. The soil plowed with tractors was made ready for corn cultivation. Mehmet Şerif Öter, President of Kızıltepe Cereals and Grain Farmers Association, touched upon the importance of corn. "On the Mardin Plain, corn is the second product after wheat in 4 districts. It is planted on an area of approximately 1.5 million decares in Kızıltepe, Artuklu, Nusaybin and Derik districts. It gives a yield of one thousand to one thousand 200 tons per decare. This is the second crop of corn in our Mardin Plain, ...