Evaluation of Vegetable Cultivation in Rize Province

Abstract

The Rize located in the Eastern Black Sea Region has a unique special ecology even within its own that area due to its geographic, topographic and climatic features. This province has an agricultural area of 54.985,3 ha in total and total vegetable production is 1618 tons in 350,2 da. Vegetable cultivation are made in small areas near their homes to meet the family needs. Major crops are kale (597 tons), green beans (398 tons), cucumber (191 tons), pumpkin (147 tons), tomato (69 tons), kidney beans (64 tons) and pepper (39 tons). These crops are followed by zuccini, peas, chard, beetroot, mint, parsley and lettuce. Besides, local genotypes such as Turkish orange eggplant (S. aethiopicum), chive (Allium schoenoprasum), Jerusalem (H(Allium schoenoprasum), Jerusalem (Helianthuselianthus tuberosus) not recorded because of low production amounts and chayote (Sechium edule) introduced from Georgia are also grown. Outstanding obstacles in the development of vegetable growing are that diseases and pests are busy because of plenty of rain and high moisture content of Rize and that the soil becomes acidic as a result of taking excessive fertilization of. In this study, the current status of vegetable production, problems and solutions in Rize was discussed.

Keywords

• Rize,Vegetable,Cultivation

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