"If it weren't for geothermal resources, we wouldn't be doing greenhouse agriculture here. This is a natural blessing," said Hakan Kozan, CEO of Kozan Agriculture, a producer from Afyonkarahisar, a province 250 km west of the Turkish capital Ankara.
His farmland is located in the Sandikli district of Afyonkarahisar, an area well-known for its geothermal resources and hot springs, where even bus stops are heated with abundant thermal water.
"We produce natural cluster tomatoes and cucumbers on 130,000 square meters of greenhouses and export our produce to 18 countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Qatar," Kozan told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Geothermal energy stands as a key driver to boost agricultural production in Turkey as it is one of the countries in Europe with the most geothermal resources, experts said.
