In Edirne, where more than half of the country's rice needs are met, three new rice varieties have been introduced to agriculture. A symbolic rice harvest was held during the Field Day event organized in the garden of the Thrace Agricultural Institute in Edirne.
In the Ilgaz district of Çankırı, one of the major rice production centers in Turkey, rice planting has begun in the fields nourished by the snow waters of Mount Ilgaz. Farmers, sweating in the water up to their knees, claim that the rice produced here is the finest in Turkey...