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Beekeeping is an economic activity that is important for development in rural areas. The quality of the honey produced is influential in forming the brand of honey in that region. The quality of honey is dependent on the natural conditions, climate, and vegetation of the area where the bees are located. Refahiye district is also a geographical region with suitable conditions for beekeeping. In this article, a semi-structured ethnographic interview, a qualitative interview, was conducted with 14 people engaged in boutique beekeeping in the Refahiye district. This study aims to determine the production method of Refahiye Kayı Honey, which received a geographical indication registration certificate in 2018. It has been observed that the production of honey produced in the district is carried out with a great effort by making use of plants such as thyme and agave flower unique to the region. The institutionalization of honey production will positively contribute to the district in terms of socio-economic aspects. However, it is far below potential. Beekeeping is considered a part-time job for retired and employees. Since they had to produce a small amount, they turned to boutique honey. A corporate structure that will help beekeepers into a full-time job needs a corporate system to document authenticity and quality, develop market distribution, and improve the brand. Products are sold through their relatives. The current cooperative union can purchase below its value. Agricultural supports should shift from visible inputs such as hive-style to invisible values that will support the institutional structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Turkey, As location of geographical position, has been as one of the important centers where various fruit types being cultivated. İmportant developments for cherry cultivation partaking in these types of fruits have been derived in recent years. Nowadays cherry farming almost in every city are being applied, using modern farming techniques caused the numbers of cherry types. 24 types of cherry are being cultivated in Turkey today. By analysing Turkey cherry farming areas and developments on ıts production, distributions of cherry farming according to regions and cities, importance of Turkey cherry farming on world farming and export and by finding out the problems on cherry farming, solution offers have been introduced in this research. Turkey's export of cherry which has an important place in the world cherry production and export has started since 1985. Turkey is the first of the world by farming 417.694 tonnes cherry which equals the %20 of world cherry farming. More than %12 of cherry production (51268 tonnes) grown in our cultivated has been exported in 2009. European countries have an important place in ıts export, ıt exports cherry over 30 countries. Various infrastructure defects, not organise between people and association taking part in production and marketing, lack of effective agriculture planning,lack of information on production and marketing, financing and shipping issues are important matters for cherry production. It is possible to keep up production and export by decreasing the matters on cherry production and shipping. To find solutions for cherry producers having problems on production and marketing, our goverment's following policy of marketing, cherry production and continuity of ıts quality will make Turkish cherry permanent in world trading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The hops plant agriculture which are used in various purposes from time immemorial in ancient Egypt and greek has been done since the 14th century. Later ıt has spread to main parts of World and Europe particulary, being the first place in England. The first hops tries started in 1930s and the years of the second world war in Turkey. As these trials remained inconclusive, the new trials within the scope of Ministry of Agriculture started again in Turkey enclosing the Bilecik city in 1955. As the best results have been obtained round Bilecik, since 1965 in Turkey just in this city hops has been cultivated. Containing one of the most important substances, hops is one of the most essential components for production of beer in Turkey and in the World, by means of some chemicals it gains bitterness, aroma and conservation features to beer. The production of hops in Turkey conducts by one the biggest beer producer, TARBES and OTGÜL COOP. Within Efes Pilsen connected to Anatolia peer companies. Although increase in the amount of beer production progressively makes demans high for hops, because of reasons such as high cost of production, being kept prices low by purchaser institutions for some years, deprived of government promotion,pursuiting becoming hard,the development of hops cultivation has failed to reach the desired level. In this article, ıt has been studied on the point of geography view the natural and human geographical features of hops production in Bilecik city, the importance of it in Turkey's production, ıts usage parts,the reasons and results of changes in production by evaluating the results obtained proposals to solve problems have been presented [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]