Turkey is experiencing meteorological and agricultural drought

Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Biosystem Engineering, Department of Land and Water Resources, Lecturer Prof. Dr. Halim Orta stated that Turkey has been experiencing meteorological and agricultural drought since April and said, "We need to establish a National Drought Center that will produce alternative scenarios. It is not even enough that these drought centers are only in our country. In this sense, solution alternatives should be produced," he said.

Prof. Dr. Orta stated that there is an agricultural drought along with the meteorological drought at the moment. If it does, agricultural drought will begin for a certain period of time. What does this mean? Since the water it needs cannot be stored in the root zone of the plant, the plant cannot take this water, cannot show its development and cannot produce the expected amount. Drought also reduces the water reserves in surface and underground water resources. Here are the dams, underground waters. As we said, due to the intense winter precipitation, our dams are currently full, so we have not entered a hydrological drought yet. There is currently a meteorological drought in Thrace and Turkey. Agricultural there is drought. "This will affect the yield," he said.

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