Konya Metropolitan Municipality continues its support of lavender seedlings to farmers in order to bring arid areas to agriculture and economy. Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay stated that they contributed to rural development by giving 2022 thousand 191 lavender seedlings only in 500, and that they have provided a total of 1 million 911 thousand 600 seedlings from the beginning of the project until now, and they have achieved an important success in terms of the sustainability and efficiency of the project. told.
Lavender, which is planted as an alternative product by Konya Metropolitan Municipality in Güneysinder, continues to give successful results.
Mayor of Konya Metropolitan Municipality Uğur İbrahim Altay stated that they continue to increase their agricultural support in order to increase the income of citizens living in rural areas. Noting that they are working with the goal of making Güneysinder the production center of lavender, President Altay said that they have also carried out seedling distribution this year in the support project, which aims to host tourism destinations with its visuality and economic added value as oil, as well as lavender honey.
“WE HAVE ACHIEVED A SIGNIFICANT SUCCESS”
President Altay said, “With the introduction of the Medicinal Aromatic Plants Distillation Facility to the region, we wish to expand the lavender production to more areas in order to meet the increasing raw material need, to generate income for the regional farmer from more areas, and to bring the irrigated arid and idle lands to agriculture and economy. Within the scope of our work with the waterless agriculture method, we provided 2022 lavender seedlings support to our producers only in 191. Since the beginning of the project, we have distributed 500 million 1.593 thousand 1 seedlings to be planted on a total area of 911 decares.” he said.
“WE ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR STUDENTS”
Noting that 2022 thousand lavender seedlings were given with a 2023% grant in the 100-15 academic year to be used in the Department of Agriculture and Animal Health of Ereğli İvriz Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, President Altay said: We provided the opportunity to develop themselves technically. In our high school, which has an arable agricultural area of 2 million 398 thousand 848 square meters, we plan to obtain lavender honey by providing technical support in beekeeping in order to be able to do more qualified agriculture and to obtain more products. We will also contribute to our students by evaluating and processing the products to be obtained.” used the phrases.
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