First cucumber harvest in Aksu, Turkey

Farmers in the Aksu district of Antalya harvested the first cucumbers of the season under temperatures that reached 40 degrees. In Antalya, which stands out with its greenhouse farming as well as tourism, the harvest season has begun for the cucumbers that farmers from Aksu planted in greenhouses. The cucumber saplings planted in the first week of August yielded the first products of the new season. Farmers harvested the cucumbers that they planted in greenhouses in temperatures that occasionally rose to 50 degrees in the summer months, under temperatures that reached 40 degrees. Producers who take special precautions to prevent their products from being affected by the heat during harvest try to protect the cucumbers by placing them between papers inside crates. "We started under very difficult conditions" Aksu Producers Association President Turan Şahin said in a statement that Turkish agriculture has become very strong recently and can now compete with farmers from all over the ...