New season seedling planting ceremony held at Kula Geothermal Greenhouse, Türkiye

Manisa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor, Architect Ferdi Zeyrek, planted the first seedlings. (source: Manisa Metropolitan Municipality)

The opening of the new production season at the Kula Geothermal-Powered High-Tech Greenhouse in Türkiye was celebrated with enthusiasm. Manisa Metropolitan Mayor and Architect Ferdi Zeyrek carried out the first planting at the event, where a total of 145,000 climbo cluster tomato seedlings were planted in the soil.

We had previously reported on the geothermal greenhouse project in Kula, Manisa, which will be implemented with an investment of 128 million lira. The new season seedling planting ceremony took place as part of the Geothermal-Powered High-Tech Greenhouse project led by Kula Municipality, in cooperation with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Industry and Technology, and the Zafer Development Agency. In the 50,000-square-meter geothermal greenhouse in Sehitlioglu Neighborhood, soil-free farming and geothermal heating techniques are employed.

Manisa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ferdi Zeyrek, Kula District Governor Ömer Ahmet Özdemir, Kula Deputy Mayor Semra Gündüz, CHP Kula District Chairman Kadir Girgin, Kula Municipality Council Members Hilal Çetintas, Mahmut Çalik, Kubilay Çetin Bozer, Yusuf Uzel, Mustafa Gökay, Murat Kaynak, Sehitlioglu Neighborhood Headman Ali Osman Pi?tav, CHP Youth Branch Chairman Hursit Ince, greenhouse production managers and personnel working in the greenhouse attended the new season seedling planting ceremony.

We had previously also published an interview with Nuran Sevimli Akkoç from Kula Municipality about the geothermal greenhouse studies carried out in Kula and the role of geothermal energy in rural development goals here. The project aims to produce both environmentally friendly and efficient production using modern agricultural techniques and renewable energy sources.

Source: Manisa Metropolitan Municipality via JeotermalHaberler