Turkey Land Use
Turkey’s land area is about 78 million hectares of which around 48 million hectares are used for some form of agriculture were used until 1991. There were nearly 24.2 million hectares in field crops, of which 5.2 million lay fallow. A further 3.7 million hectares were in use as vineyards, orchards and olive groves, and 20.2 million hectares were covered by forests and other forests.Other land areas accounted for about 29 million hectares, included in this figure, the country was classified as small lakes, marshes, wasteland and cultivated areas. The “other” category also included about 9 million hectares of permanent pasture.
During the twentieth century, population pressure resulted in the expansion of agricultural land.The area of some 8 million hectares in the 1920s to nearly 19 million hectares in 1952 and to nearly 28 million hectares 1991st With Marshall Plan credits that for the first time in 1948 available, Turkey began a large number of tractors, it is possible to extend the cultivation of marginal areas, in particular the import of the Anatolian plateau made. Even though total production grew rapidly, not yields. From about 1970, almost all arable land was under cultivation.
The cultivation increased mostly at the expense of meadows and pastures, which decreased by about 46 million hectares in the mid-1920s to about 14 million hectares in the mid-1980s.Although possible, created the cultivation of larger area to an even greater agricultural production in the short term over the long run it problems for livestock production. He also led the destruction of trees and plowing the fields, the marginal costs were too steep and were barely enough rainfall even in normal years. In the early 1960s, government agents were encouraged farmers to adopt contour plowing and other measures to minimize the erosion of practice, but little effect. In the late 1970s, over half of the country have judged serious erosion problems, and some regions experienced levels of dust-bowl conditions. All was hit in Turkey, met with the mountainous eastern provinces hardest. Some areas lost topsoil and could support few plants.
Over the 1970s, the government conducted land use studies and found that had more than a fifth of the land otherwise used to achieve an optimal long-term production. Abuse was greatest in rain-fed cropped fields, pastures and wasteland but found some more suitable for other purposes, such as farming and forestry. Turkey unusually high proportion of fallow land also limited production, in 1981 the government began encouraging double cropping and the planting of feed crops on fallow fields. The government was considering a broad land-use planning policy.Proved to be difficult, because the reform of state inefficiency and lack of alternative crops in the fields off of the markets, where farmers had hardly any choice but to cut to use their land to grow grain to feed their families. to provide improvement of the road, irrigation systems and consulting services continue to hope for eventual improvements in land use.
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