What is turkeys most important recource?

Answer 1

Exporting basic metals and chemicals provides about 25 percent of jobs and 95 percent of exports. While crops from the agriculture sector provides about 30 percent of the jobs and about 3 percent of exports.

Turkey has 60 different minerals that are produced in Turkey. Natural Resources - minerals:

· antimony

· Bauxite

· Boron salts - richest mineral deposit - 72% of the world's total

· Chromite

· Copper

· Chrome

· Gold

· Iron

· Lead

· Manganese

· Mercury

· Pyrites

· sulfer

· Zinc

Raw materials :

· Aluminum

· Coal

· Cement

· Fertilizers

· Limestone

· Oil

· Natural gas

· Steel

Agriculture:

· Almond - eighth largest producer

· Apples - sixth largest producer

· Apricot - world's largest producer

· Barley - seventh largest producer

· Cherry - world's largest producer

· Chickpeas - second largest producer

· Cotton - seventh largest producer

· Cucumber - second largest producer

· Eggplant - third largest producer

· Fig- world's largest producer

· Grapefruit - ninth largest producer

· Green pepper - third largest producer

· Hazelnuts - world's largest producer

· Lemon - tenth largest producer

· lentil - third largest producer

· Olives - fourth largest producer

· Onion - fourth largest producer

· pistacchio - third largest producer

· Pomegranate - world's largest producer

· Rye - ninth largest producer

· Sugar beets - fifth largest producer

· Tomatoes - third largest producer

· Tea - sixth largest producer

· Tobacco - sixth largest producer

· Watermelon - second largest producer

· Wheat - ninth largest producer