MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS (MARA)

GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF PROTECTION AND CONTROL

(91/676/EEC) “TÜRKİYE’DE NİTRAT DİREKTİFİNİN UYGULANMASI”

(IMPLEMENTATION OF NITRATE DIRECTIVE IN TURKEY)

Basri EVCİFisheries Engineer,MSc.

October 23-25 2007 - ANKARA

TITLESTITLES

Nitrates Directive Clauses

Agricultural Structure in TurkeyAgricultural Structure in Turkey

Adoption of Nitrates DirectiveAdoption of Nitrates Directive

Application of Nitrates Directive in Turkey Project Application of Nitrates Directive in Turkey Project MATRA Project

Results of the projectResults of the project

Area(million ha)

% ofAgricultural area

Total Area 66.9

Agricultural Area 21.8

Cereals 15.2 69.9

Vegetables – Flower 0.6 2.7

Permanent crops 2.4 11.0

Fallowing Lands 3.7 17.2

Irrigated Area 5.2 23.9

Natural meadow 14.6

Unused potential areas 1.9

Agricultural Structure

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11

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7

Total area sown

Total area vegetables andflowers

Total area permanent crops(perennial)

Total area poplar & willow

Total area unused potentiallyproductive land

Total area permanent meadow

Country-wide agricultural area use

IRRIGATED AREA IN TURKEY

YIL SULANAN ALAN (1000 ha)

1960 1 319

1970 1 930

1980 2 769

1985 3 407

1990 3 840

1996 4 235

1997 4 461

1998 4 581

1999 4 643

2000 4 709

2001 4 781

2002 4 856

2003 4 921

IRRIGATED AREA IN TURKEY

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SULANAN ALAN

(1000 ha)

YILLAR

Irrigated Area

Years

STOCKBREEDING NUMBER(Million)

DISTRIBUTION NUMBER

Total Cattle 10.6 < 1 year 2.6

< 2 year 2.9

> 2 year dairy cattle

4.6

Other cattle 0.5

Total Chicken 297 Broilers 238.1

Egg 58.8

Turkey 5.9

Duck 0.8

Goose 1.3

Total Sheep 25.3 Adults 12.6

Lamb 12.7

Goat 6.6

Donkey 0.3

Mule 0.1

Horse 0.2

PROVINCES ACCORDING TO ANIMAL VOLUME (Top-10) (Million) (2005 )

Cattle Sheep Goat

PROVINCEnumber PROVINCE

number PROVINCE number

ERZURUM 0.53 VAN 2.4 ANTALYA 0.55

KONYA 0.33ŞANLIURFA 1.4 MERSIN 0.40

KARS 0.33 AĞRI 1.4DİYARBAKIR 0.24

AĞRI 0.31 KONYA 1.3 MUŞ 0.22

SAMSUN 0.30 MUŞ 1.2 ADANA 0.20

BALIKESİR 0.29 ERZURUM 0.7 MANİSA 0.19

SİVAS 0.29 BALIKESİR 0.7 İZMİR 0.19

AFYON 0.29 AFYON 0.7 K.MARAŞ 0.17

AYDIN 0.28DİYARBAKIR 0.7 ŞIRNAK 0.17

İZMİR 0.28 ANKARA 0.6 VAN 0.17

CATTLE POPULATION IN TURKEY

Chicken Turkey

Province Number

Province Number

BOLU 86.4 IZMIR 0.64

MERSIN 27.5 MANISA 0.37

BALIKESIR 19.3 BOLU 0.31

SAKARYA 17.2 ESKISEHIR 0.27

DÜZCE 16.2 SANLIURFA 0.18

MANISA 12.9DIYARBAKIR 0.15

KOCAELI 12.1 MUS 0.11

KONYA 11.6 VAN 0.11

ÇANAKKALE 11.1 KARAMAN 0.11

IZMIR 7.2 K.MARAS 0.08

CHICKEN POPULATION IN TURKEY

CHEMICAL FERTILIZER CONSUMPTION IN TURKEY

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YILLARFertilizer consumption vs years

Province Chemical Province Manure

Adana 239.6 Balıkesir 85.6

Balıkesir 104.3 Bartın 76.0

Edirne 110.6 Bolu 396.4

Hatay 158.4 Düzce 115.5

İzmir 97.6 Erzurum 81.5

Kahramanmaraş 112.9 İzmir 80.3

Niğde 122.2 Kocaeli 89.2

Osmaniye 151.5 Mersin 70.7

Sakarya 184.8 Sakarya 88.7

Tekirdağ 118.0 Tunceli 75.1

Chemical Fertilizer and Manure Consumption per HectareKg nitrogen /ha agricultural field

Hektar başına kimyasal ve hayvansal gübre tüketimi (kg azot/ha tarım alanıHektar başına kimyasal ve hayvansal gübre tüketimi (kg azot/ha tarım alanı ..))

Tarım alanı başına düşen hayvan sayısı (hayvan ünitesi/ha tarım alanıTarım alanı başına düşen hayvan sayısı (hayvan ünitesi/ha tarım alanı ..))

Hektar başına hayvansal gübre tüketimi (azot hayvansal/ha)Hektar başına hayvansal gübre tüketimi (azot hayvansal/ha)

Clauses of Nitrates Directive

• Determination of Polluted Waters

• Determination of Vulnerable Zones

• Good Agricultural Practices – For farmers– For environment

• Preparation of Action Plan

• Monitoring Results and Reporting

• Obeying Clauses of Legislation

ADAPTING NITRATES DIRECTIVEADAPTING NITRATES DIRECTIVE

According to EU legislative alignment; “Protection of Water Against Agricultural Nitrate Pollution Bylaw” that corresponds to Nitrates Directive 91/696 EEC, came into force with the Official Gazette dated February 18,2004 numbered 25377.

Application of Nitrates Directive in Turkey ProjectApplication of Nitrates Directive in Turkey Project

““Application of Nitrates Directive in Turkey Project”, had been prepared Application of Nitrates Directive in Turkey Project”, had been prepared in order to assist application of Nitrates Directive, that was financed in order to assist application of Nitrates Directive, that was financed within MATRA program of Holland Government; launched in January within MATRA program of Holland Government; launched in January 2005 and finalized in December 2006. 2005 and finalized in December 2006.

Results of Application of Nitrates Results of Application of Nitrates Directive in Turkey ProjectDirective in Turkey Project

Nitrate (surface waters / ground waters) monitoring sampling stationsNitrate (surface waters / ground waters) monitoring sampling stations

Average nitrate values for surface waters in 2005-2006 Average nitrate values for surface waters in 2005-2006

Max nitrate values for surface waters in 2005-2006 Max nitrate values for surface waters in 2005-2006

Average of average nitrate values of surface watersAverage of average nitrate values of surface waters

Average of max nitrate values of surface watersAverage of max nitrate values of surface waters

Nitrate Concentration in surface waters (% station)

Nitrate Concentration (mg/ L)

<2 2-5 5-10 10-25 25-40 40-50 >50

Average % 66.3 23.9 6.1 2.3 1.2 0.0 0.0

Max % 33.4 34.6 15.9 11.9 2.2 0.6 1.4

Average nitrate values of ground waters in 2005-2006Average nitrate values of ground waters in 2005-2006

Max nitrate values of ground waters in 2005-2006 Max nitrate values of ground waters in 2005-2006

Average of Max nitrate values for ground waters in 2005-2006 Average of Max nitrate values for ground waters in 2005-2006

Ground water concentration in stations (% station)

Nitrate concentration ( mg/L)

<25 25-40 40-50 >50

Average 86.0 7.4 2.6 4.0

Max. 69.0 14.3 4.3 12.4

Application of Nitrates Directive in Turkey Application of Nitrates Directive in Turkey Project DocumentationProject Documentation

• Application Plan Document for Turkey• Framework Document for Good

Agricultural Practices • Sampling – Analysis Guide • Eutrophication Guide

In consideration of year 2005, Nitrate monitoring has been carried out in 548 groundwater, 1026 surface water sampling stations.

The application will take a long time because of the climate diversity and area variety and wide and different agricultural applications such as in Turkey.

Pollution sourced from excess use of chemical fertilizers and manure is not widespread in national level but the pollution decreases on specific areas.

Results of Nitrates Directive Application (I)

Generally, irrigated areas are the potential nitrate pollution areas,

There are manure storage – usage problems iin the areas where intensive cattle and winged animal stockbreeding exist.

Results of Nitrates Directive Application (II)

Technical Assistance and Twinning Project

• Implementation of Nitrate Directive in Turkey Project which is capacity strengthening oriented had been accepted in order to provide application of “Protection of Waters Against Nitrate Pollution By Law” to be supported by EU Pre Accession Financial Assistance.

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