Drying tomatoes after harvest starts in Turkey

Tomatoes grown in the Karacadağ region of Diyarbakır will be exported to all over the world after drying. Harvest started in dried tomatoes, whose seedlings were brought together with the soil in April, on an area of 4,226 decares with the land leased by the entrepreneurs in Karacadağ and with the farmers with whom an agreement was made. Tons of tomatoes are dried by laying on white cloths after harvest. In the sweltering heat, the tomatoes picked by the workers in the fields are cut in half by hundreds of people in the drying area, where they are brought by vehicles, and then they are laid out on the cover and salted. After drying, tomatoes will be exported to the USA, Arab and European countries through companies. "OUR DRY TOMATO TARGETS 1800 TONS" Muzaffer Işıklı, one of the entrepreneurs, said that he has been growing dried tomatoes in the city for the last 2 years. Işıklı, who stated that they produce dried tomatoes on an area of 3,500 decares in the province, stated that ...