The first harvest festival was held for the geographically marked Kazakh beans.

The first Kazakh bean harvest festival, organized by the Manyas Culture and Tourism Association, was held in the rural Kocagöl neighborhood. In the 1700s, the Cossacks, who were oppressed in Tsarist Russia, migrated to Turkey and settled in the rural Kocagöl (Cossacks) neighborhood. They planted the bean seeds they brought with them around Manyas Lake and cultivated them. When the Cossacks returned to their homeland in 1962, they left the Kazakh beans as a legacy. In recent years, the Manyas Kazakh beans, which have received a geographical registration, led to the Manyas Culture and Tourism Association organizing the first Kazakh bean harvest festival this year. As part of the festival, a symbolic bean harvest was carried out, and the beans were sorted and cleaned by the women in the neighborhood. Speaking at the festival, Manyas Culture and Tourism Association President Fevzi Karakaş explained the geographical indication process and the characteristics of the Kazakh beans, while ...