Harvest time in Turkey's spinach warehouse; prices at 4 TL in the field, 20 TL in the market

The harvest of early spinach planted in thousands of decares of field in Menemen district of Izmir has started. It was learned that the price of spinach from the field is 4-5 liras, and it is currently sold for 15-20 TL in the markets. In Menemen, there is a feverish effort to harvest the early harvest of spinach, one of the indispensable vegetables of the winter season. Agricultural workers head to the fields at the first light of the morning for the harvest that is cultivated on thousands of acres of agricultural land in the district and is eagerly awaited by producers. While trucks of spinach are collected by hand every day, the spinach is first washed in pools and then loaded onto trucks for shipment. Spinach from Menemen fields, which is described as Turkey's spinach warehouse, meets a large part of the spinach needs of Istanbul and Izmir. Harvesting in Menemen, whose climate and soil structure is suitable for spinach, will continue throughout the winter season. "The product ...