STATUS OF PUMPKIN SEED PRODUCTION IN TURKEY

Journal Title: Current Trends in Natural Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 12

Abstract

Pumpkin seed contains very valuable nutrients and may have some beneficial health effects. The aim of this study was to overview status of pumpkin seed production in Turkey. The production has sharply risen from 11.500 tons in 2015 to 42.181 tons in 2016. The area has also indicated sharp increase from 172.580 da to 628.441 tons in the same period. The first section provides introduction of topics, and later nutrition value of pumpkin seed, taxonomy, production, bottlenecks and breeding efforts are summarized. They have several advantages such as their short vegetation time that just fits the Central Anatolia conditions where vegetation time available is too short for many other crop plants, net profit per de compared to the other crop plants, extended storability, etc.

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Osman Gulsen, Gizem Kaya, Akife Dalda-Sekerci

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Osman Gulsen, Gizem Kaya, Akife Dalda-Sekerci (2017). STATUS OF PUMPKIN SEED PRODUCTION IN TURKEY. Current Trends in Natural Sciences, 6(12), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-25133