Hemp is one of the traditional cultivated plants of both our country and Yozgat, and its importance and usage have been increasingly spreading worldwide in recent years. Yozgat is one of the 19 provinces where its cultivation is permitted according to the hemp regulations. The fact that hemp is one of the traditional plants of our country and Yozgat, coupled with its growing importance and usage in recent years, necessitates revisiting this plant, increasing its production, and ensuring the supply of necessary raw materials for industries based on it.

Through this project, the objectives are to utilize pivot irrigation—a novel method in agricultural irrigation systems—in research projects, to reduce irrigation costs over large areas, to decrease labor expenses, to ensure uniform irrigation, and to deliver water directly and effectively to the root zones of plants.

In the region, which historically had a viticulture culture, vineyards were abandoned due to diseases that emerged because the old-type rootstocks were ungrafted.

In the project area, there is a pond constructed in 1990 for irrigation purposes and a closed irrigation system facility built in 2019.

In fields where dry farming is practiced, fallowing is common. The project aims to narrow fallow areas by introducing alternative production such as black cumin, cumin, sesame, and thyme. This initiative is intended to provide economic returns, implement crop rotation for its positive outcomes, increase the income level, quality of life, and welfare of the local population, and achieve high income from limited land.

Through this project, the establishment of a soilless strawberry greenhouse aims to save labor and time, obtain higher strawberry yields per unit area, enable more efficient and planned use of productive agricultural lands, and achieve self-sufficiency in strawberry production for Meram district.