Food and Agriculture

The fundamental means of living in Iğdır is agriculture industry. When taken into consideration of the sectoral structure, it consists of production of cereals, forage plants and fruit and vegetables, husbandry and beekeeping. Even though the sector covers the 45% of the population, it constitutes the 25% of it in terms of added value. And this shows that the added value is relatively low in agriculture industry. Recently, poultry farming has been carried out with greenhouse cultivation and production under protective cover.

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Honey Production (tons)

Iğdır is a province which is in the nature of micro-climate in Eastern Anatolia, which has 800 mt. lower altitude compared to the surrounding provinces and has a efficient irrigable Sürmeli Lowland. Therefore, fruit and vegetable growing is common in Iğdır. Products such as melon, watermelon, tomato, especially apple are transferred to the provinces in the region. Iğdır Apricot is known throughout Turkey and it is exported to Russia when it is raw over (generally) Trabzon to be used in preparing vodka and compote which is a Russian traditional dessert. And infrastructure problems in the agriculture industry have direct impacts on the production efficiency.

Production wheat, barley, forage products, corn (piece), white beans and cotton (unginned) has been taken under the scope of support of production within the scope of the basin-based production support program announced in October 2016 by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Husbandry. The cotton of which production has not been carried out for 30 years is expected to be launched in Iğdır Lowland and establish a cotton gin plant within this framework.

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Herbal Production Value (1000 TL)

Alive Animal Value (1000 TL)

Animal Products Value (1000 TL)

Herbal Production Value per person (TL)

Alive animal value per person (TL)

Animal Value per person (TL)

According to the results obtained from the research on the suitable investment areas in Iğdır conducted by SERKA, the suitable operation areas to be invested in agriculture sector are as follows;

Silage Corn and Trafoil Growing
Shrub Fruit Plant Growing/Fruit and Vegetable Growing
Roug Hage Production
Greenhouse Cultivation and Ornamental Plants
Seed Growing
Beekeeping.