Turkey: Mersin provides 90 percent of rosemary production

Rosemary is produced in two-year periods on an area of 3,365 hectares within the forest management directorates of Tarsus, Erdemli, Gülnar and Silifke in Mersin. Mersin Regional Directorate of Forestry announced that 90 percent of rosemary production in Turkey is met from the city. In the statement made by the directorate, it was emphasized that rosemary production spreads in some parts of the city, and the following information was given: "The annual average production in our Regional Directorate is 200 tons, but rosemary production is not sufficient for our country and imports are made from Morocco and Tunisia. In Turkey, in the Mediterranean maquis ...