The Konya Metropolitan Municipality continues to provide uninterrupted seedling and sapling support to promote development and increase plant production in rural areas.
This year, Konya Metropolitan Municipality distributes 115,000 grape, apple, walnut, almond, apricot, aronia, blackberry, raspberry, and cherry saplings worth 4.5 million Turkish Lira be planted on 1,193 hectares of land in 31 districts for rural development. Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur Ibrahim Altay stated that agricultural support will continue to increase in 2023, saying, "We will provide 50 million Turkish Liras of agricultural irrigation and agricultural support this year. Konya is a productive city that produces not only for itself, but also for Turkey. We have supported our farmers in every aspect, and we will continue to do so."
Since 2018, Konya Metropolitan Municipality has provided a total of 168 million Turkish Lira in support for the development of Konya agriculture, including 73 million Turkish Lira in agricultural support and 95 million Turkish Lira in irrigation investments supported by KOP. The municipality has now started distributing 115,000 grape, apple, walnut, almond, apricot, aronia, blackberry, raspberry, and cherry saplings on 1,193 hectares of land throughout Konya, for which it had previously received applications. The support, which costs 4.5 million Turkish Lira, includes the distribution of apple, walnut, and cherry saplings, with the distribution of other saplings to follow in the coming days.
Uğur Ibrahim Altay, Mayor of Konya Metropolitan Municipality, who distributed saplings to farmers, stated that they have been carrying out various projects to support agricultural production as the Metropolitan Municipality and that the support will continue uninterrupted in 2023 as well.
Mayor Altay stated “This year, we will hopefully provide 50 million Turkish Lira in irrigation and agricultural support. Today, we are providing sapling support to our farmers. This year, we will have introduced a total of 115,000 saplings to our farmers. We are working to increase the variety of products in Konya and promote the use of plants that require less water and enable our farmers to earn more income. On the other hand, we continue to try new plant varieties that are suitable for our ecosystem. Last year, we distributed olive trees in the Göksu region, and this year we are distributing chestnut trees. Thus, we aim to produce high-value-added products in Konya.”
