Collections from different cities of Turkey are preparing for Europe
Turkey’s international collections with a thousand and one cleanliness, It is included in the menus of European cuisines.
Many producers in Anatolia Edirne and Hatay counted as one of the top cities.
Those caught by night hunting in Hatay during the winter in Edirne during the day are among the shopping items.
The new generation of hunters, who have learned their mastery in grueling hunting, continues.
Kilogram 30 lira
In the districts of İpsala and Meriç, where it is grown intensively in Edirne, those collected by the hunters from the fields and irrigation channels are included in the menus of European cuisines.
Kadıdondurma village of Meriç is also among the places to see on days when collecting is intense.
In the first light of the morning, the collectors in the village, get on the minibus and the roads of their fields.
The hunters, getting out of the vehicle in the area they have determined, will start their share in the water channels in the paddy fields by taking their crotch boots and scoops in their hands.
The hunters, who put the scoop raised in preparation for the canal, also go to get the nests at the bottom with the scoop by mixing the water with their feet.
It takes 5 hours for froggers to hunt. At least 30 boxes weigh 1 kilogram. The frogs caught, train together at 30 liras per kilo in the village.
Those sent to the communities by the intermediary are sorted according to their size and filled into the files alive, and sent to the exporter company.
Some days they can’t catch it at all
Beyti Aydın (65), who lives in the village and has two children, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that he has been hunting for 30 years.
Aydın, who prefers to continue frog hunting, expressed to express himself in the patch fields during the summer period.
“Sometimes there is 5 kilos light. Sometimes there is 20-30 kilos. Once you find your place, it’s too much.” said.
Aydın expressed his concerns about the ambiguous job in which his hunting had a difficult reason.
It will already be suitable. If we do, we can use it for one more month,” he said.
It serves the taste of restaurants known as “water nightingale”
Explaining the service according to fairy tales in the classrooms of the frog yolbenin classrooms, Aydın said, “I am the one who eats.
Hunter Mehmet Ali Esmer also said that he has been collecting since 1994, as of the date of his death.
Stating that he collected plenty on days when the weather was nice, Esmer expressed an average of 7-8 kilograms.
It will be said that their work has been expanded. Esmer said, “Therefore, there is a difference. The population is extinct. The drug is also thrown into the canal indiscriminately.” he said.
Shipping to France and Italy
Subaşı also mediates the delivery of Hüseyin Erhan, which the village collects from the hunters, to the exporters.
It has been said to have been around since the 1970s part of frog hunters. Defe takes the car from the seller from the incoming ones. At five degrees they live 10-15 days. Our biggest customers are buyers in France and Italy.”
Erhan argued that he has improved the increasing number of pesticides in agriculture over the years.
“In the past, our product was more, it was not good for surplus,” said Er. “Today’s agriculture is a tougher, stronger type of product. I read an average of 600-700 kilos per day, and I read 4-5n books.” their uses.
They earn their living by the profession of “frog fishing” from their grandfather’s heritage.
With a part of the production factory in Turkey, the hunters of the Kırıkhan district of Hatay continue their education from father to son.
Gathering at the Gölbaşı Lake in the Gölbaşı District of the district at sunset, the gatherers start their preparations by lighting a fire as the weather starts to get dark.
The hunters, who wear their boots and overalls with them, determine the areas where they will camp with caps and lanterns, and the mountains become mountains.
In order to benefit from “what if”, readers with a small scope until they can get into them from the lake in the small and dark night, on the other hand, are waiting for the readers of the fictions to complete.
The hunters, who find or pull the sights out of the water with their hands and scoops, stuff the camps they catch into sacks and bins that they tie around their waists.
Passengers who go to collect products until the first light of the morning are full of agricultural fields and equipment in the country.
“Sometimes we don’t know what to expect”
Seyfettin İpek (37), who has been working as a child through 30 tunnels since he was a child, is from the preparation, the preparatory department, the preparation stage in his profession.
İpek, who is one of Turkey’s product books for the region, spoke as follows:
“Going to various parts of Turkey such as Diyarbakir, Ağrı, Antalya, Aydın, etc. To dangerous creeks a day. Sometimes what do we encounter in the water. We collect 30 kilos per general. When the winter is the hardest, we stay at home within 3 months. We renew the weather in the summer.
Stating that collecting frogs is more difficult in cold weather, İpek added the not very pleasant words from training kilometers to kilometers designing, being designed to return empty-handed.
“I make my living with this job”
Duran (36) who will be told that he has been hunting since his childhood, said that hunting is the livelihood of the children in his neighborhood.
Hakan, about 8 products “Due to the collecting of my house used in the Baba collection, they are the balls of my house worn in the summer.” he said.
Hakan added why collecting is so difficult because of the cold at night.
Mahmut İpek, on the other hand, noted that frog hunting is described by some, and that they can travel in frogs.
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