In Salihli, it's harvest time for kapya pepper

Harvest joy is being experienced in Salihli district of Manisa, where the most beautiful kapya peppers are grown in the Aegean Region, adding flavor to tomato paste and tarhana. In the rural neighborhoods of Kemer, Poyraz, and Hacıhıdır in Salihli, kapya pepper (red pepper) is being planted as an alternative to tobacco, used in many areas from tomato paste to sauces, from grilling to drying, from powder and flake peppers to spice production, and even in pickles, becoming an indispensable raw material for agriculture-based industry and prepared foods, with its usage area constantly increasing, it has become one of the region's leading products. Kapya pepper seedlings, planted in May, start yielding harvest in the first days of September. The ripe peppers are collected one by one and sent to surrounding ...