Turkey: From production to export, agricultural products are grown from the seedlings produced from local seeds

Published Jun 11, 2021

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The article highlights the efforts of greenhouse growers in Istanbul, who are producing natural agriculture products using local seeds and with support from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The Ministry has launched nine crop production projects and distributed 37,840 seedlings to female farmers in Sarıyer. Istanbul has approximately 89 thousand hectares of agricultural land, with greenhouse cultivation covering around 1791 decares. The average yield of farmers in Istanbul is higher than the national average. Aksu Çuğ, a greenhouse farmer in Gümüşdere village, emphasizes the importance of agriculture and the support provided by the state, which allows him to produce and sell naturally grown products.

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While some greenhouse growers in the village of Gümüşdere in Sarıyer provide their families with natural agriculture with the support of the state on the seedlings they obtain from local seeds, they offer natural products to the residents of Istanbul, from producer to consumer, without intermediaries. This year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry launched 9 crop production projects for farmers in Istanbul, within the scope of the "Project for Enabling the Use of Agricultural Lands" within the scope of the "Increasing Agricultural Production Project". Within the scope of the "Project to Disseminate and Improve the Use of Domestic and National Vegetable Seeds by Women's Hands", which is among the projects put into practice, local and national seeds met with the soil by the women farmers engaged in greenhouse agriculture (greenhouse cultivation). Within the scope of the project, 37,840 seedlings produced from local seeds, including 8,160 cucumbers, 7,280 tomatoes and 22,400 ...

Source: Sondakika