Harvest of white gold has started in Şanlıurfa, Turkey

In Şanlıurfa, where a significant portion of Turkey's cotton production is carried out, the farmers started harvesting in the fields with the expectation of high yields. Cotton, whose cultivation area has increased following the spread of irrigated agriculture within the scope of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP), continues to be the hope of the farmers. Cotton, which is one of the strategic products because it provides raw materials to the textile industry with its fiber, the oil industry with its seed and the livestock sector with its pulp, stands out as the product that farmers are most interested in with the increase in irrigable areas in the region. Despite the rapid development of mechanization in the harvest of cotton, which was planted on an area of approximately 2 million decares this year, some farmers prefer manual harvesting for various reasons. The workers, who make their way to the fields at the first light of the morning and collect cotton until the evening, ...