Due to the drought, Isparta, which has seen a 35% decrease in rose harvest, aims to compensate through value increase.

Isparta, which meets 65% of the world's rose oil needs, has started its rose harvest season. Ibrahim Isidan, General Manager of the Rose Oil and Oily Seeds Agricultural Sales Cooperatives Union (GÜLBİRLİK), said, "Agricultural frost this year reduced the rose harvest by 35%. However, we will try to compensate for this loss by making our products more valuable." Known as the capital of roses, Isparta has begun its rose harvest excitement. According to legend, rose saplings brought in the walking stick of Müftüzade Gülcü İsmail Efendi from Bulgaria's Kızanlık city in 1888 were multiplied in Isparta and production began on thousands of acres of land. Today, rose harvest, which is the livelihood of hundreds of families, lasts approximately 1 month. Producers enter the gardens in the early morning hours and manually pick roses to prevent the oil sacs in rose petals from bursting with sunlight. The collected roses are quickly transported to factories called "collection centers". Here, ...