Herbs

A producer who started collecting bay leaves 30 years ago has turned it into a successful business supporting local women workers in the northern province of Samsun, where bay leaf production is done on a large scale and exported worldwide.

A lavender festival takes place on Saturday near Chirpan.

In order to take advantage of the lavender plant's capacity to flourish with little water, a village teacher in the southeastern province of Şırnak has taken the initiative to spread lavender gardening throughout the village, due to the region's water shortage.

The history of art is full of unsung heroes. Their names have remained in the dark, either because we turned our backs on them or because they chose to. We only find them hidden in archives, libraries, rare old editions and on dusty shelves.

Photography aficionados have thronged the northwestern province of Edirne to attend the "Lavender Fields Day," a festival to be held between June 16 and 19, with the occupancy rate of the city hotels hitting 100 percent, the local tourism professionals have said.

Rose growers in Karlovo region, central Bulgaria, staged a protest this morning to alert that the sector is in a severe crisis. Oil-bearing Rosa Damascena thrives best in our country - this is the reason why this product is so expensive, but it is very difficult to cultivate.

"There is a clear result of inaction and problems accumulated over the years. We are told that we have to manage on our own, because we are in a market economy situation, while in Turkey this industry has state support, but this displaces us on world markets ...'. This is what the rose processor Metodi Stefanov commented to BNR.  

Two separate drug busts in the regions of Attica and Magnesia in central Greece resulted in the seizure of several kilograms of drugs and military-grade weapons, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) announced on Tuesday.

Police officers in the narcotics squad in Ioaninna, northwestern Greece, seized more than 73 kilograms of cannabis in the early hours of Tuesday morning after detaining a 43-year-old suspected drug dealer near the village of Kefalovryso.
Officers found the drugs during a search of the man's vehicle, which they stopped after receiving a tip-off.

Officers from the Kozani police narcotics unit have located and seized more than 1,000 cannabis trees from two farms in Karditsa, central Greece, and arrested four suspects - a 53-year-old Greek and three foreign nationals aged between 43 and 46 - believed to have been running the illegal cultivation, police said on Thursday.