Turkey: Harvest of 2.6 million rosemary planted in Kocaeli has begun

Within the scope of the "Medical and Aromatic Plant Cultivation Project", implemented last year by Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality in order to increase the income level of farmers, which it encourages to grow high value-added products, and to support agricultural development, the first harvest of approximately 2.6 million rosemary planted on an area of 1200 decares throughout the province has begun. Participating in the harvest, the Mayor of the Metropolitan Municipality Assoc. Dr. Tahir Büyükakın harvested in the field together with employed women farmers. RETURN FROM THE CITY TO THE RURAL IS ENCOURAGED In Kocaeli, which is one of the rare cities where tourism, industry, education, agriculture and animal husbandry activities are carried out together, the support of the Metropolitan Municipality to the farmers is increasing and peaking this year. With the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Breeding Project (TABIP), one of the most important rural development initiatives of Kocaeli, to ...