olive, compost, water harvesting, no tillage soil management, medicinal plants
Determine and assess benefits/impacts and trade-offs of agroecology, and identify best practices
I am a professor at the Vocational Training School, İzmir Demokrasi University, İzmir, Türkiye. My area of expertise is microirrigation systems, evapotranspiration, drought stress, salinity stress, and orchard management. Recently, I have been working on regulated deficit irrigation applications on plants especially fruit trees. Many of my studies are on fruit trees growing in Türkiye and Mediterrenaen Basin. I worked in FAO a National Agriculture and Irrigation consultant. There are the experts and academicians on plant nutrition, compost making, plant protection, agricultural machines and agricultural finance in my project team.
İzmir Demokrasi is a public university in Turkiye. The university's graduate studies institution serves master's, PhD, and postgraduate study programs for all faculties. The university serves research funds through the Scientific Research Projects Funding Office with national regulations. There are plenty of research groups in different disciplines in the university
Another project partner in Turkey is Sustainable Agriculture Research and Development Cooperative (İzmir). It prepares and offers projects on agricultural and rural development.
İzmir where my university located on it has large of olive orchards and also olive oil compnay and olive growers. Agricultural production is one of the main source of income. The project will be carried out in an olive and olive oil production facility (Urla, Izmir, Turkey). In the project, various alternative products will be grown to strengthen the soil, biological control practices will be implemented, and data-based practices will be implemented for the “Regenerative agriculture-verification system” envisaged by the agroecological approach.