Project on Capacity Building for Local Government Personnel

The Karatay Bilsem New Generation KOP Learning Center has been established in the Karatay Science and Arts Center building. Innovative approaches are used to enhance the thinking, designing, and production skills of children and young people in the region, with the aim of enabling children to develop themselves through innovative education. The New Generation KOP Learning Center houses the KOP Astronomy-Aviation and Space Workshop, the KOP Technology-Digital Engineering Workshop, and the KOP Science and Experiment Workshop.

There are approximately 96,000 workplaces in 484 Small Industrial Sites across the country. Seventeen percent of these businesses operate in the automotive sector, 15% in machining and sheet metal processing, 13% in metal goods, and 12% in plastic goods. Specifically in the KOP Region, there are 57 small industrial sites and approximately 11,000 businesses.

Through the portable sheepfold projects, the objectives are to improve shelter conditions and thereby enhance animal welfare, to prevent productivity losses in animal husbandry, to produce healthy and high-quality animal products, to prevent the establishment of permanent shelters in pastures, to clear irregular structures within pastures, and to develop alternative methods that will facilitate the reclamation of pasturelands.

Carried out within the Faculty of Agriculture at Selçuk University, this project represents the country's first domestic purple carrot seed breeding initiative. It aims to substitute and nationalize imported seeds, resulting in the development of the first national hybrid purple carrot seed through breeding studies.

Due to the majority of agricultural lands in the region being arid and the low annual precipitation levels, the majority of cultivated agricultural areas consist of cereal farming. Grain production holds particular importance in Konya, as the province hosts numerous industrial investments based on grain processing.