Biotech Studies 2015, Vol 24, Num, 1     (Pages: 079-084)

Climate Change and Effect on Yield Components of Opium Poppy

Ahmet GÜMÜŞÇÜ 1 ,Gönül GÜMÜŞÇÜ 2

1 Selçuk University, Çumra Applied Science High School, 42500, Çumra, Konya, Turkey
2 Bahri Dağdaş International Agricultural Research Institutes, Karatay, Konya, Turkey
- This paper was prepared from the poppy production data of Turkish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, and climate data of Turkish State Meteorological Service. In this paper, it was stated how is affected the agricultural production by climate change. In accordance with this purpose, it was used the last five years production data of opium poppy and monthly weather temperature, precipitation and relative humidity data in the provinces producing opium poppy. Keywords : Climate change, poppy production, Turkey, yield components