Ordu Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Dr. In line with Mehmet Hilmi Güler's 'self-sufficient city' principle, the agricultural development initiative that he started with the aim of developing agriculture in Ordu, expanding the production of different agricultural products, making use of idle lands and producing different products in the place where citizens were born, continues to bear fruit.
The number of producers increased to 2020 in the 2 years that passed in the salep planting, which started production with 3 producers in order to bring additional income to the producers in 64 by the Ordu Metropolitan Municipality Department of Agriculture and Livestock Services. New season harvesting studies have been started in Ünye district, which is one of the districts planted.
SALEP CULTURE IS ORGANIZED IN 15 DISTRICTS IN ORDU
Metropolitan Mayor Dr. With the instructions of Mehmet Hilmi Güler, the production of different products was accelerated in Ordu, which started to attack in agriculture. In this context, the "Expansion of Salep Production Project" continues with 15 producers in 64 districts including Akkuş, Altınordu, Çamaş, Çatalpınar, Çaybaşı, Fatsa, Gölköy, Gürgentepe, İkizce, Kabadüz, Kumru, Korgan, Persembe, Ulubey and Ünye.
THE FIRST SALEP HARVEST WAS MADE IN ÜNYE
The first harvest was carried out in the salep production project of Ordu Metropolitan Municipality, which aims to contribute to both the economy and employment by encouraging agricultural production in rural neighborhoods.
Producer Ali Yücel Alan, who is satisfied with the harvest in Ünye district, said that Ordu Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Dr. He thanked Mehmet Hilmi Güler and gave the following statements:
“We applied for salep production, which was started by Ordu Metropolitan Municipality 3 years ago. At the point we have reached, we have increased our production day by day with the support of the Metropolitan Municipality. Our cultivation area, which we started on an area of 2020 square meters in 50, has increased to 800 square meters today. We do not have any problems in selling the products we produce. The kilogram price of the salep seeds we produce is 700-800 TL. Since the day he took office, our Metropolitan Mayor Dr. We would like to thank Mehmet Hilmi Güler and his team very much”.