Turkey: Muğla Metropolitan Municipality supports silkworm producers

Silkworm Cocoon

Turkiye

Published Jun 7, 2023

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Muğla Metropolitan Municipality continues to work to support agricultural production and increase the income of producers with alternative and high added value products. It contributes to sericulture producers with services such as mulberry saplings and feeding houses. Working to ensure that women also participate in production, the municipality aims to create alternative income sources in Muğla by supporting sericulture production.

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Continuing to work to support agricultural production in Muğla and to increase the income of producers with alternative and high value-added products, the Metropolitan Municipality contributes to silkworm producers with services such as mulberry saplings and feeding houses throughout the province. Melahat Yalınkılıç; "I love to produce as a housewife" Melahat Yalınkılıç, one of the producers that the Metropolitan Municipality supported for sericulture in Maşat, Yeşilyurt Mahallesi, Menteşe district, said that she was a housewife, knew silkworm production and weaving from the family and was happy to support her family economically with the support of the Metropolitan Municipality. Yalınkılıç continued his words as follows; "I love to produce. I participated in sericulture production this year. My mother and grandmother used to produce silkworms before. It is a pleasant and beautiful job. We collect and give mulberries. We clean the bottom every 3-4 days, we expand the places. Our ...

Source: Sondakika