With the start of the summer season, when greenhouse crops are switched to field crops, both consumers and wholesalers have an eye for Çanakkale. The artisans who want to benefit from the reputation of Çanakkale tomato write ‘Çanakkale tomato’ on their products.
This situation, encountered at the beginning of each crop year, upset the Çanakkale tomato growers. The producers say that the real Çanakkale tomato will not be able to take its place on the counter before July.
Its flavor is potassium in its soil and the strong wind gives it
The taste of the famous Çanakkale tomato, where the demand is so high, is the wind of the city and the soil with high potassium content. Tomato growers in the Kumkale Plain, also known as the Batak Plain, state that they owe the aroma, scent and appearance of their products to the winds blowing from the Kaz Mountains and Dardanelles and the soils with high potassium content. Kumkale, Tevfikiye, Naked and Halileli villages are the main tomato production centers in the city. Şahin Ceylan, who grows tomatoes in the village of Tevfikiye, stated that the soil structure in the Kumkale Plain is very suitable for tomato production, “The high potassium content of the soil gives the tomato a very good color and the inside is plump. Therefore, Çanakkale tomatoes are very tasty and juicy.”
Gürcan Duran, who mediates the marketing of the product between the producers and wholesalers in the Naked village, said that the reason why Çanakkale tomato is preferred by consumers is the taste and the long shelf life. Kumkale Plain from far across Turkey to the middle of November, the beginning of July, Duran explaining tomato shipments to bear some of the range based on seasonal conditions, “Çanakkale tomato peculiar smell, color, and is known for its flavor. Are unique to the Table of Contents crystalline structure Çanakkale tomatoes. No vessel Kumkale Plain comes to mind when it comes to Çanakkale tomatoes. Currently, around 200 tons of products per day are shipped to metropolitan cities. In the last early harvest, that is, in the October-November period, around 500 tons of tomatoes are produced from here, “he said.
