Production and Marketing of Walnut in Çağlayancerit District of Kahramanmaraş Province

Year 2025, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 194 - 204

Zülküf Aydemir , Akide Özcan , Mehmet Aytekin

https://doi.org/10.47115/bsagriculture.1624433

Abstract

This study was conducted to evaluate the current situation of walnut production and marketing in Çağlayancerit district of Kahramanmaraş province, which has an important place in terms of walnut cultivation in Türkiye. Within the scope of the study, secondary source walnut production data of Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) were used. In addition, verbal interviews were conducted with producer and NGOs. In the research, SWOT analysis was conducted by examining the secondary data of producer and NGOs. Walnut production in Çağlayancerit increased from 520 decares in 2004 to 35,000 decares in 2023. The increase in walnut production area between these years is calculated as 149%. According to 2023 data, approximately 6,750 tonnes of shelled walnuts was produced in 35,000 decares. With these values, Çağlayancerit is the district with the highest walnut production area and amount among the 11 districts of Kahramanmaraş. Interviews with professional chambers and local people revealed that the walnut genotype, which has been cultivated in the region for many years, was registered by selection breeding and included in the National variety list by the Central Directorate of Seed Registration and Certification of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Republic of Türkiye in 2009 under the name of ‘Maraş 18’. While ‘Maraş 18’ variety was known only by the people of the region before 2009, today it has become a variety known all over Türkiye and even the world. As a result of the SWOT analysis of the interviews with the NGOs and producers of the region; being in a good geographical location in walnut production, being in the position of walnut gene centre, carrying out production activities according to the land conditions, having academic experts in the region on walnut production and cooperation can be considered as strengths. When we look at the weaknesses; climate change, global warming, decrease in groundwater in recent years, deterioration of the ecological balance of the region, spread of plant diseases and pests, increase in input costs, decrease in the number of experienced farmers, lack of cooperatives and unions, insufficient promotion of the district walnut. For Çağlayancerit walnut production and marketing to gain momentum, it will be beneficial to increase the regional incentive investments by the state and private sector and increase the number of cooperatives/unions. The active use of the existing walnut processing and packaging facility will also contribute to the branding process of the walnut in the region. In addition, it is thought that the recognition of the region with this variety will increase by focusing on the advertising and marketing activities of the name ‘Maraş 18’ in the domestic and foreign markets.

Keywords

Çağlayancerit, Walnut, Production, Marketing

Ethical Statement

Ethics committee approval was not required for this study because of there was no study on animals or humans.

Project Number

-

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