Turkey: Asparagus harvest in Antalya and Muğla started with the joy of export

Published 2022년 4월 23일

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Aslı Aksoy, a former marketing manager, has shifted her career to asparagus farming in Antalya and Muğla, Turkey, starting with a small plot and expanding to 250 decares with the help of local women. The production volume is around 20 tons per year, and she has begun exporting to Germany and Singapore. The women farmers from the Yeşilçam District of Muğla contribute to the harvest, which takes about three months. Aksoy emphasizes the health benefits and high added value of asparagus and believes it has great export potential, especially with its early production and long season.

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Aslı Aksoy, who left her career as a marketing manager in a company in Istanbul and started asparagus production in Antalya and Muğla, sells her products abroad, especially in Germany. While working as a marketing manager in a food company in Istanbul, Aksoy changed his life with the asparagus he tasted on a business trip in New York, graduated from the Middle East Technical University (METU) Department of Business Administration and completed his master's degree at Koç University, leaving his career and moving to his hometown of Muğla. Aksoy, who started production on a 2,5-decare land in the first stage and was satisfied with the results, increased its production capacity to 20 and then to 40 acres, with the support of local women. Reaching a production of approximately 20 tons per year, Aslı Aksoy rented another 210 acres of land from Boztepe Agricultural Enterprise of the General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises (TİGEM) in Antalya's Aksu district with her partner Buğra ...

Source: Sondakika