Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı announced that all plant production carried out in closed areas will be recorded by identifying them with their geographical coordinates, regardless of ownership or place of production, through a letter of undertaking.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's 'Indoor Plant Production Registration System Regulation', which aims to record plant production in closed environments, was published in the Official Gazette. Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı, in his statement, stated that with the regulation, all plant production carried out in partially or completely controllable indoor areas such as greenhouses, vertical farming facilities and mushroom facilities, where farmers produce, will be identified and recorded with their geographical coordinates, regardless of ownership or place of production, by undertaking. He stated that it would be taken.
Stating that the 'Greenhouse Registration System Regulation', which came into force in 2014 specifically for the light-permeable greenhouse cultivation model, was abolished with the publication of the new regulation in the Official Gazette, Yumaklı said, "With our new regulation, we can make production planning by determining our current potential and regional distribution in the most accurate way, as well as internal In line with our and foreign market targets, we will be able to create new production areas that reduce our carbon footprint, including logistics activities. "Congratulations to all our producers," he said.
“61 Thousand Producers and 485 Thousand Decares of Area are Registered”
Minister İbrahim Yumaklı pointed out that Turkey ranks 4th in the world and 2nd in Europe after Spain in terms of greenhouse wealth. Yumaklı underlined that while greenhouse production areas were 2002 thousand decares in 540, they reached 2023 thousand decares in 42 with an increase of 764 percent and gave the following information:
“Of the total 764 thousand decares of greenhouse area, 504 thousand decares are greenhouses, 142 thousand decares are low tunnel areas, 117 thousand decares are high tunnel areas, and 22 thousand decares of the greenhouses are modern greenhouse areas. As of January 2024, 61 thousand producers and 485 thousand decares of land are registered in the Greenhouse Registration System of our Ministry. As of 2023, the areas in our Antalya, Mersin, Adana, Muğla, Burdur, İzmir, Aydın and Hatay provinces constitute approximately 92 percent of our total greenhouse assets. 90 percent of the products produced in modern greenhouses are exported and strengthen our country's economy. Vegetables are grown in 91 percent of our greenhouse areas, fruits are grown in 8 percent, and ornamental plants are grown in 1 percent. "In recent years, plateau greenhouse cultivation activities have become increasingly widespread in our regions above 600 meters altitude."
“We Aim to Accelerate Our Crop Production”
Pointing out that Turkey's modern greenhouse population is approximately 22 thousand decares and the average enterprise size is 27 decares, Yumaklı said, “In these greenhouses, production is carried out for export with the soilless agriculture method. As of 2023, soilless agriculture method is produced in 58 provinces. 30 percent of our enterprises producing with soilless agriculture method are in Antalya, 12 percent in Afyonkarahisar, 11 percent in Mersin and 9 percent in Izmir. "With the regulations we have implemented, we aim to increase the presence of greenhouses in our country, disseminate modern production techniques, reveal our capacity with the planning to be made and accelerate our plant production," he said.