Turkish Minister of Forestry and Water Works Veysel Eroglu stated that during the rule of Justice and Development (AK) Party, the amount of afforested areas increased to 470,000-500,000 hectares ...
The area afforested in 2023 was 1,651 hectares, a 27% decrease from the 2,273 hectares afforested in 2022. The 2023 afforested area is only 24% of the 2007 figure, when the afforested area was up to 6 ...
While on the rise, the area afforested last year represented just a third of the total area planted in 2007 The share of afforested area planted by farmers in 2022 was 23% which was an increase on ...