Turkey: "Hokkaido" squash will be a new source of income for farmers in Bayburt

Bayburt University has started a study to make "Hokkaido", known as Japanese squash, a new income source for farmers. Vice Rector and Head of Food Engineering Department Prof. Dr. Under the leadership of Ümmügülsüm Erdoğan, an agricultural practice and research field was established in Gümüşsu village of the center in 2015 in order to transfer the theoretical knowledge of the students in the vocational practice courses into practice and to increase the diversity of agricultural production in the city through scientific studies. This year, "Hokkaido", whose homeland is Japan, was planted in the field where chestnut squash, red kuri squash and gum squash were grown. After the trial planting was done on an area of approximately 5 decares, the plant, whose morphological development was observed to be at a very good level, was harvested. It is predicted that 2.5 tons of yield per decare can be obtained from the usually orange zucchini, also known as Japanese squash. It is aimed to ...