Turkey: Thyme producers who completed the harvest did not get what they expected from the season

The harvest season, which started with great hopes in Denizli, a city that produces 75 percent of the world's thyme and 85 percent of Turkey's thyme, did not meet their expectations as thyme prices were low and the yield was below expectations. Thyme, produced in Denizli in recent years as an alternative to tobacco, meets a significant part of the thyme need in Turkey and the world. It is produced in tens of thousands of decares of land in the surrounding rural neighborhoods, especially in the Uzunpınar District of Pamukkale district, and constitutes 75 percent of the world's thyme production and 90 percent of the production in Turkey. The harvest of thyme ripening in the fields of farmers growing medicinal and aromatic plants in Uzunpınar District of Pamukkale district has been completed. The thyme, which was harvested from the fields with the machine behind the tractors, was kept for two days for drying, then collected, beaten with a thresher and filled into sacks and prepared ...