In the context of a project carried out jointly by Konya Metropolitan Municipality and Karatay Municipality, agricultural production is being carried out in Saraçoğlu Neighborhood on a land of 14 million square meters allocated by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change.
In the project jointly carried out by Konya Metropolitan Municipality and Karatay Municipality, agricultural production is being carried out on a 14 million square meter area in Saraçoğlu Neighborhood.
Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay and Karatay Municipality Mayor Hasan Kılca inspected the agricultural production area allocated by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change and carried out spraying with a seeder on a 1.4 million square meter area after chickpea planting.
A certified domestic chickpea seed will be planted on 1.4 million square meters of the 14 million square meter area for product diversity, increasing soil fertility, and suitability for rain-fed farming. If the weather conditions are favorable, it is expected to harvest 350,000 kilograms of product from the planted chickpeas. Thus, the products to be produced with the aim of increasing the production of legumes, which constitute the foundation of the Turkish economy and have an important place in human nutrition, will be used within the framework of social support projects.
Konya Metropolitan Municipality and Karatay Municipality planted 3 million square meters of drought-resistant, certified, domestic bread wheat before winter on a 14 million square meter agricultural area. If weather conditions are suitable, it is expected to harvest 1,200 tons of wheat from the area. Additionally, within the framework of another joint project, Konya Metropolitan Municipality will produce 8 million kilograms of local and national potato seeds on a 2.5 million square meter area within the plant production area in Saraçoğlu Neighborhood to meet Turkey's local and national potato seed needs. Furthermore, with the small ruminant livestock project, a sample improvement work will be started on the 24 million square meter pastureland next to the area.
