BERTAN BALÇIK: WE SHOULD EXCEED 1 MILLION TONS IN COTTON PRODUCTION
Record expectations for cotton production... National Cotton Council Chairman Bertan Balçık, on his press release, "This season cotton will go down in history, I hope this year will have a record in Turkey on condition that good weather conditions in the production. Our biggest goal is to exceed 1 million tons. In all of the cotton acreage steadily in a development," he said . Balçık, said in his statement, "white gold" as described in the October season of cotton, in 2017, 502 thousand hectares of cotton plantation areas in 2018 rose to 525 thousand hectares, he added. The production amount is 882 thousand tons in 2017 and in 2018 it is about 930 thousand tons. Balçık also explained, "There is a steady development in all regions of the cotton cultivation area. This has accelerated slightly in the Aegean Region and Adana last year. We expect more capacity with the areas to be opened." The target in cotton is to exceed 1 million tons, Balçık voici...