Antalya Metropolitan Municipality continues its support to agriculture and farmers within the scope of local development projects. In this context, Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Agricultural Services Department teams donated "burgundy slurry", an agricultural pesticide, to the local people who earn their living from agriculture in Kovanlık District of Döşemealtı district. 1500 packages of claret slurry were distributed to farmers in Kovanlık District for an area of 200 decares. Kovanlık District farmers will use the "burgundy slurry", which is used as a precaution against bacterial and fungal diseases, on their olive trees. After the olive harvest, the burgundy slurry used in the spring months provides protection to the trees before the new season. Bordeaux mixture protects the tree against bacterial and fungal diseases that cause productivity to decrease.
Mehmet Özer, Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Agricultural Services Department officer, said, “As the Metropolitan Municipality, we continue our support to agriculture, which forms one of the foundations of our economy. For this reason, we supported our farmers in Kovanlık District with a burgundy slurry grant. "When this pesticide is not used, trees are damaged and this causes economic loss," he said.
THANKS TO THE PRESIDENT
Kovanlık Neighborhood Headman Nazım Doğan said, “This medicine was very important so that we could destroy the bacteria that caused great harm to our olive trees. The Metropolitan Municipality often helps us farmers and contributes to production. our president Muhittin Böcek"I would like to thank on behalf of myself and the residents of the neighborhood for the support they provided us," he said.
WE GOT IT FOR FREE
İlyas Irmak, a farmer in Kovanlık District, said, “I have 400 trees. Our Municipality supported us to disinfect them. This medicine is something that we have to constantly throw away, and we are very pleased to have this costly medicine free of charge. "I would like to thank Antalya Metropolitan Municipality very much," he said.
