OUR ECONOMY RESOURCES

People earn their living with agriculture. The district’s mountains are covered with olive trees and forests. And its plains have fertile lands.

Getting milk from cows is advanced and vegitable planting is a priority. In the last years, artificial planting is being used.

In the plains, where nearly all kinds of plants are being grown, cotton, corn, vegitable, tobacco, and wheat are the prior living sources of the community.

County’s landwidth is 275,200 decares. 37,750 decares is suitable for agriculture and 237,450 decares is mountainous and rough terrain. But there are approximately 5000 olive trees in the mountainous terrain.
Agriculture with water is being made in 32,300 decares and agriculture without water is being made in 5,440 decares. There are 125,000 peanut-pines in an area of 1,225 decares in the scope of pine growing.

The crops that are being grown are Cotton, Corn, Vegitable, Peanut, Olive, Apple, Chestnut and Walnut respectively. Also there are nearly 80 families involved in artificial agriculturing in an area of 45 decares.

The enterprises in agriculture are 90% small and 10% middle-sized. 4000 tons of Cotton, 6300 tons of Corn, 15,000 tons of Olive, 16,000 tons of Agriculture and 1600 tons of various fruits are being grown yearly in areas that are suitable for agriculture.

Stockbreeding has an important place in the country’s economy. Milk production, which has the most important place in stockbreeding, is 7210 tons yearly and meat production is also 7210 tons yearly. There are 22,000 cattles, 9000 sheeps and goats in the county.

Nearly 350 families are involved in apiculture and have a production of 544 tons yearly. Ostrich breeding is also a new branch in stockbreeding industry.