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In Turkey, they will produce coffee after 87 years!

Raw Common Coffee Bean
Turkiye
Published Jan 9, 2021

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In Antalya, where a great progress has been made in the cultivation of tropical fruit species in recent years, nowadays the work on coffee production has gained momentum. Final preparations are being made for the production of 'coffee', which was researched for the first time in 1934, but failed due to the lack of technical equipment and technologies.

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The Western Mediterranean Agricultural Research Institute (BATEM), in cooperation with the Akdeniz University Faculty of Agriculture and the Provincial Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, prepared a project titled 'Research on the Adaptation of Different Tropical Fruit Species to Antalya Conditions' in 2013. As part of the project, seedlings of 'passiflora-passionflower', 'litchi', 'pitaya-dragon fruit', 'longan', 'guava' and 'mango' were brought from the state of Florida, USA in 2014. When the production of passion fruit and dragon fruit, which were registered after the project, became legal, a rapid transition to tropical fruit production was achieved. Nowadays, BATEM has taken action for the production of 'coffee', which it researched for the first time in 1934, but could not reach a result due to the lack of technical equipment and technologies. WILL BE THE CENTER OF COFFEE AFTER TROPIC FRUIT BATEM Manager Abdullah Ünlü gave information about the studies on coffee ...
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