Turkiye: The city of Amasya is brimming with cherries this year

In Amasya, the city of Anatolia famous for its apples, this year the branches were pressed by cherries. Amasya, the land of fruit, which is expected to produce around 52 thousand tons of cherry this year, rose to the 3rd place in Turkey in production. "We have risen from 7th to 3rd in production" Amasya Governor Mustafa Masatlı said, "We are the third in Turkey in cherry production. Last year, our cherry harvest was 38 thousand tons. Currently, it has reached 52 thousand tons. We have risen from 7th to 3rd place in production." "We have distributed 62 thousand cherry saplings in the last two years" Reminding that the fertile lands and air of the city are very suitable for cherry production, Governor Masatlı stated that they took the geographical indication of the cherry type known as '0900' and started to introduce it as 'Amasya cherry'. "We have distributed a thousand cherry saplings. We are now one of the cherry purchasing points of international food companies," he said. 60 ...