TÜRKİYE’DE ÖNEMLİ BİR SERACILIK ALANI: YALOVA İLİ

Abstract

The study area known as Yalova Province is located in the North of Armutlu Peninsula. In this study, the relations between greenhouse activities which are widely applied in Yalova Province and physical geographical factors, have been analysed. The aim of this study is to understand the reason of developments at greenhouse activities in the Yalova area. These activities constitute percentages of 33 income in Turkish economy. At the same time, 33 percentages of the population in the county have been employed in greenhouse activities. The percentage of 50 in the production has still been exporting. Thus, that condition supports a foreign currency flow for the economy. The national income per person of the county which is 3463 a n d 8300 in 2001 and 2005 respectively. These figures reflect higher level than Turkey’s average 5062$. This condition indicates the importance of greenhouse activities with the other sectors. Convenient physical and human factors support greenhouse activities. On the other hand, there are some problems such as snowing, frost and various illnesses in production. And also the need of quality seed has been supported from abroad. This also causes some problems in these activities. Finery and green plants greenhouses are common in the area. Finery plant greenhouses have reached to the international level

Keywords

• yalova
• greenhouse
• topographic factor
• climate
• geographical information systems (gis)