Turkish farmers affected by drought in Kırıkkale turned to planting black cumin
Dried Chickpea
Cumin Seed
Turkiye
Published Apr 7, 2022
Tridge summary
The farmers of Kırıkkale turned to black cumin last year due to the loss of yield in chickpea due to drought.
Original content
Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry Sırrı Yılmaz told Anadolu Agency (AA) that cereals are planted in approximately 70 percent of Kırıkkale's existing 300 thousand hectares of agricultural land. Explaining that they have distributed seeds to farmers this year with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Special Provincial Administration, within the scope of the "Effective Use of Agricultural Lands Project", Yılmaz said that they have been working on black cumin and medicinal aromatic plants for a long time. Yılmaz stated that they saw that black cumin pleased the farmers in previous years and said: "We distributed approximately 11 tons of black cumin seeds to our producers this year. This corresponds to 5,500 decares of sowing. Last year, we had approximately 9,000 decares of black seed planting. This year, with 5,500 decares of new planting, black cumin planting will increase to approximately 15 thousand decares. "We started the planting of ...
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