Turkey: The remaining straw was sent to the Black Sea and Mediterranean Regions

Published 2024년 6월 12일

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Farmers in Yozgat, Turkey, are selling surplus hay harvested last summer to breeders in the Black Sea and Mediterranean Regions at 1,250 liras per ton. This sale provides additional income for Yozgat's farmers, who faced an abundance of hay and instability in animal husbandry last year, leaving much of the hay unsold. Sellers like Ali Ekinci are clearing out the leftover hay before the new barley and wheat harvest begins. The hay is mainly used for sheep farming, with Central Anatolia supplying most of the winter feed for animals in these regions.

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Surplus hay harvested in Yozgat during the summer season last year is being sent to the provinces in the Black Sea and Mediterranean Regions this year. In Yozgat, one of Turkey's important agricultural and livestock centers, farmers earn additional income by selling surplus hay from last year to haymakers. Hay makers start working from the early hours of the morning, pressing tons of hay under extreme heat and delivering it to breeders in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions. In the city, where the barley and wheat harvest will begin in the new season, the remaining hay from last year is sold for 1,250 liras per ton. Ali Ekinci, one of the sellers who collected the remaining hay from last year in Bahadın Town of Yozgat's Sorgun district, said that he has been making his living by selling hay in Yozgat for 20 years. Stating that breeders in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions supply their animals' feed from the Central Anatolia Region, Ekinci said, "Last year, due to the ...

Source: Iha