Turkey: Grapes turn into molasses in Yozgat

SEYFİ ÇELİKKAYA In Yozgat, one of Turkey's important agricultural regions, while efforts to rehabilitate the fresh vineyards, which were once an important source of income for the people, continue, the grapes grown in the existing vineyards have begun to be boiled and made into molasses. Following the harvest of 'raisin', famous for its thin skin and taste, which has been produced in the Gülşehri town of Yozgat's Sorgun district for nearly a century, furnaces were established and the grapes are boiled and turned into molasses. In Yozgat, which is Turkey's 5th largest province in terms of agricultural areas and where agricultural production is carried out on an area of approximately 6 million decares, efforts to develop and popularize viticulture as well as field crops continue. While the existing vineyard facilities are being rehabilitated within the scope of the project, some of the grapes produced are sold for table use, while the other part is boiled and made into molasses. The ...