The Importance of Irrigation in Viticulture
2024
Coskun, Zafer
Viticulture is an important branch of agriculture that has been practiced for centuries in our country. Grape, which have been grown for many years, have a special place in terms of both our economy and our culture. To come across the vine in many villages of Türkiye, to sit in its shadow and rest has been a blessing to many of our colleagues and people. At the same time, grapes have taken place in folk songs, poems and festivals as well as our traditional cuisine, and this has revealed the importance given to it by our nation. Anatolia is among the homelands of the grapevine, and there are 1457 cultivars/genotypes belonging to Türkiye in the Vineyard Research Institute of Tekirdağ Viticulture Research Institute (Uysal et al., 2023) on the world scale, Türkiye ranks 5th in viticulture in terms of area and 6th in terms of produced products. Although it varies from year to year, an average of 4,000,000 tons of grapes are obtained from an area of approximately 420,000 ha in our country. The amount of grapes utilized for table usage is 2,000,000 tons, followed by 1,000,000 tons for wine/must and 1,000,000 tons for raisins. Throughout the country, an average of 620,000 hl of wine is produced annually in a total of 181 wineries spread over 29 provinces. While Türkiye ranks first in the world with an average annual production of 250,000 tons of raisins, it ranks 3rd in terms of table grape production (O.I.V., 2021).
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