11 thousand tons of cabbage production in Daphan Plain in Erzurum, Turkey

In Erzurum, farmers produce 11 thousand tons of cabbage in 2 thousand 500 decares throughout the city, especially in the Daphan Plain, where fertile lands are located. Cabbage and vegetables produced in the Daphan Plain, located between Aziziye and Aşkale districts, which are prominent in vegetable production, are marketed to the surrounding provinces. Farmers living in Söğütlü District of Aziziye district, where intensive agriculture is carried out and approximately 2 thousand tons of cabbage is produced every year, started to harvest their crops at the end of May. Farmers, who load the cabbage they remove from the main leaf with axes onto tractors, sell their crops to the surrounding provinces through brokers in the markets. Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry Alparslan Kenger told the AA correspondent that there is around 4 million 800 thousand decares of agricultural potential in the city. Emphasizing that there is 15 thousand decares of vegetable production area ...