TURKISH AGRI.NEWS

Harvest period of cabbage, cultivated in July, has begun in İnegöl district of Bursa province. Although the weather is cold, farmers continue to dismantle. The market price of cabbage has a 1 lira price in the field! Harvest period started in white cabbage which is among the indispensable vegetables in winter. İnegol is harvesting 6 tons of cabbage on an area of ​​600 decares. İnegol Chamber of Agriculture Chairman Sezai Çelik, examined the harvest of cabbage in the Kulaca neighborhood. Çelik said, "Inegöl began to harvest cabbage, we came here to see. İnegöl region has 90 kinds of products are grown, one of them is cabbage. But unfortunately we are experiencing difficulties in making money .We came here today to show you the terrible gap from producers to  consumers. The cabbage market, which costs 1, 25 liras in the field, is sold for 5 liras. You can see what kind of conditions our women workers have. As a result the gap between field and market prices can not be accept...

Everbearing strawberries, known as "red diamonds" in the Kurşunlu rural neighborhood of Bursa's İnegöl district, are now being exported to Russia after Georgia and Ukraine. Of 30,000 tons of strawberries annually grown on a field of 12,000 decares in the Kurşunlu neighborhood, are offered to the domestic market, while the remaining 20 percent go abroad. The first exports to Moscow recently followed exports to Georgia and Ukraine. Tons of strawberries were loaded on to trucks and sent to both countries recently. İnegöl Chamber of Agriculture Chairman Sezai Çelik said that Kurşunlu is one of Turkey's favorite areas for strawberry production. Since previously they only sold strawberries to the domestic market, Çelik said that they exported six trucks of strawberries to Moscow. Noting that strawberries grown in Kurşunlu have a higher aroma and longer shelf life, he added: "Since it has proven itself with its flavor, it has become very popular. We are very happy....